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The sailfish; -- called also woohoo.

A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.

An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.

A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.

To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them Hooker. What subdued To change like this a mind so far imbued With scorn of man, it little boots to know. Byron. What boots to us your victories Southey.…

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

rvice formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. Bailey. Mozley & W.

The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.

The science of botany. [Obs.] Bailey.

One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. Shak.

Unavailing; in vain. See Bootless.

stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments. [Written also botts.]

To impregnate with a preservative solution of copper sulphate, as timber, railroad ties, etc.

ined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.

One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural. He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Acts i. 18.

turnipsShak. To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.

A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled. Bowline bridles, the ropes by which the bowline is fastened to the leech of the sail. -- Bowline knot.…

A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.

ers or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile. A boyish, odd conceit. Baillie.

A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head.