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Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.

Unavailing; in vain. See Bootless.

A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.

Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.

An allowance of fuel. See Bote.

An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote. Blackstone.

Same as Haybote.

allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.

Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman. Spelman.

See Mægbote.

A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant). Spelman.

The upland plover. [Local, U. S.]

Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry. See Bote.

The receiving of a man's goods again from a thief, or a compensation for them, by way of composition, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment.

See Cartbote. See also the Note under Bote.

ation for forbearing to prosecute, such compounding being an indictable offense. See Theftbote.

A large sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas (Lobotes Surinamensis).

The tripletail (Lobotes).

An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and middle coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery gray, and becomes brown or blackish when dead. Its dorsal and anal fins are long, and extend back on each side of the tail. It has large silvery…

, highland plover, hillbird, humility, prairie plover, prairie pigeon, prairie snipe, papabote, quaily, and uplander. -- Upland sumach (Bot.), a North American shrub of the genus Rhus (Rhus glabra), used in tanning and dyeing.