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is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty. Gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. Milton.

Plunder, or booty. [Written also spuilzie, and spulye.] Sir W. Scott.

A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber.

A stout, coarse boot or shoe; a brogan.

a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap.

An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.

A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle. [Cant or Slang] Charles Reade.

Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low. "Horribly tabernacular." De Quincey.

A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.

In Cuba, Mexico, etc., a booth, stall, or shop where merchandise is sold.

Anything, or any part, corresponding to the toe of the foot; as, the toe of a boot; the toe of a skate.

A tollbooth; also, a merchants' meeting place, or exchange. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Top-boots. [Slang] Dickens.

the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.

of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.

Of or pertaining to tyrannicide, or the murder of a tyrant. Booth.

The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.

anization, similar to the Salvation Army, founded (1896) by Commander and Mrs. Ballington Booth.

ye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses. Booth.

Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color. Booth.