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A game at cards. [Obs.] B. Jonson. Boot crimp. See under Boot.

One who, or that which, crimps; as: (a) A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape. (b) A device for giving hair a wavy apperance. (c) A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.

A very fine, hairlike feather. Booth.

a drumming with the fingers or feet. "Jack played the Devil's tattoo on the door with his boot heels." F. Hardman (Blackw. Mag.). -- Devil worship, worship of the power of evil; -- still practiced by barbarians who believe that the good and evil forces of nature are of equal power. -- Printer's devil, the youngest ap…

er; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker. [Written also dorrhawk.] Booth.

A young or small dove. Booth.

leavings; dregs; refuse. All world's glory is but dross unclean. Spenser. At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross coats its ounce of gold. Lowell.

Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless. Shak. -- Ef*fect"less*ly, adv.

A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 185…

whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots. Thackeray.

A tool used in crimping boot fronts.

The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.

A sycophant; a fawner; a toady. Cf. Bootlick. Shak.

To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.

Repaired by foxing; as, foxed boots.

An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill. Booth.

High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.

to undertake or become responsible for; to bear a part in. They to go equal shares in the booty. L'Estrange.

n (Bot.), an annual species of plantain (Plantago Coronopus); -- called also duck's-horn. Booth. -- Hartshorn shavings, originally taken from the horns of harts, are now obtained chiefly by planing down the bones of calves. They afford a kind of jelly. Hebert. -- Salt of hartshorn (Chem.), an impure solid carbonate o…

ck, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or shoe.