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To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.)

Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians. Hessian boots, or Hessians, boot of a kind worn in England, in the early part of the nineteenth century, tasseled in front. Thackeray. -- Hessian cloth, or Hessians, a coarse hempen cloth for sacking. -- Hessian crucible. See under Crucible. -- Hessian fly (Zo…

A laced boot, ankle high.

To put on, as clothes; to draw on. The baron had indued a pair of jack boots. Sir W. Scott.

The inside sole of a boot or shoe; also, a loose, thin strip of leather, felt, etc., placed

A device to pull off boots.

A bootblack. [R.]

A young hawk. Booth.

A name given to a free-booting, unenlisted, armed man or guerrilla.

To be fastened with a lace, or laces; as, these boots lace.

A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed. The cobbler is not to go beyond his last. L'Estrange. Darning last, a smooth, hard body, often egg-shaped, put into a stocking to preserve its shape in darning.

A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts; a tool for stretching leather on a last.

To grease. [Obs.] Bacon. Liquor fishermen's boots. Shak.

Plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered or sacked city.

To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder. "Marauding hosts." Milman.

A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages. De Quincey.

Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.

Wearing or furnished with an ochrea or legging; wearing boots; booted. A scholar undertook...to address himself ochreated unto the vice chancellor. Fuller.

Attached to the body, as clothing or ornament, or for use. "I have boots on." B. Gonson. He put on righteousness as a breastplate. Is. lix. 17.

The outside sole of a boot or shoe.