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e; useless; without advantage or success. Chaucer. I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. Shak. -- Boot"less*ly, adv. -- Boot"less*ness, n.

t into the boot, a wedge is driven. The pretty boots trimly stretched on boottrees. Thackeray.

A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.

A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and wa…

To befool; to trick. [Obs.] I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, Baffled and bored, it seems. Beau. & Fl.

Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.

Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence. Gray.

A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is sulphide of antimony and lead.

e bounced into the room. Out bounced the mastiff. Swift. Bounced off his arm+chair. Thackeray.

Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray.

A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.

on; cockneydom. People born within the sound of Bow-bells are usually called cockneys. Murray's Handbook of London.

to sustain trousers; suspenders. I embroidered for you a beautiful pair of braces. Thackeray.

Salt or brackish water. [Obs.] Drayton.

Brackish. Drayton.

stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers. Gray.

trimming. A gentleman enveloped in mustachios, whiskers, fur collars, and braiding. Thackeray.

lework representing branches, flowers, or twigs. The train whereof loose far behind her strayed, Branched with gold and pearl, most richly wrought. Spenser.

A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix.

Breach of falth, a breaking, or a failure to keep, an expressed or implied promise; a betrayal of confidence or trust. -- Breach of peace, disorderly conduct, disturbing the public peace. -- Breach of privilege, an act or default in violation of the privilege or either house of Parliament, of Congress, or of a State…