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A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

A humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person. Slyboots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Goldsmith.

High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light- colored leather around the upper part of the leg; riding boots.

To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.

A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.

Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.

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.…

One who blacks boots.

Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.

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

A device for pulling off boots.

One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.

r shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven. The pretty boots trimly stretched on boottrees. Thackeray.

The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.

n hook, a hook for catching a button and drawing it through a buttonhole, as in buttoning boots and gloves. -- Button shell (Zoöl.), a small, univalve marine shell of the genus Rotella. -- Button snakeroot. (Bot.) (a) The American composite genus Liatris, having rounded buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) An American um…

A rustic high shoe or half-boots. [Obs.] Drayton.

Long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century. Fairholt.

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

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.