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A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation. Camden.

To forage for booty; to plunder. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots. Shak.

See Bothy.

, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth. [Scot.]

See Tollbooth.

are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll. [Obs.] He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. Wyclif (Mark ii. 14).

Of or pertaining to aërolites; meteoric; as, aërolitic iron. Booth.

A very minute barb or beard. Booth.

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

A very fine, hairlike feather. Booth.

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.

The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting. Booth.

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

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…

A young hawk. Booth.

Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths. Ainsworth.

The act of voting, or of registering a vote. Polling booth, a temporary structure where the voting at an election is done; a polling place.