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Unavailing; in vain. See Bootless.

A small boot; a lady's boot.

nd of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter. Giving them not a little the air of brigands or banditti. Jeffery.

Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.

A buskin or half-boot. [Written also brodequin.] [Obs.]

The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.

n hook, a hook for catching a button and drawing it through a buttonhole, as in buttoning boots and gloves. -- Button shell (Zoöl.), a small, univalve marine shell of the genus Rotella. -- Button snakeroot. (Bot.) (a) The American composite genus Liatris, having rounded buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) An American um…

An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping.

See Pinkboot.

which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year. Booth.

An instrument of iron, with sharp prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper. Kane.

One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot.

To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole. Clouted cream, clotted cream, i. e., cream obtained by warming new milk. A. Philips.

A rustic high shoe or half-boots. [Obs.] Drayton.

ican Union, who met under the Articles of Confederation from 1781 till 1789. -- Congress boot or gaiter, a high shoe or half-boot, coming above the ankle, and having the sides made in part of some elastic material which stretches to allow the boot to be drawn on and off. [U.S.] -- Congress water, a saline mineral wate…

A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.

The back leather or heel part of a boot.

Long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century. Fairholt.

ve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.

A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers.