- 2. Benefit, blessing, advantage, good, privilege.
Boon, a.
- 1. Kind, bountiful, generous, benign, benignant.
- 2. Gay, merry, jovial, jolly, convivial.
Boor, n. Rustic, clown, hind, lout, lubber, swain, peasant, bumpkin, clodpole, countryman, ploughman.
Boorish, a. Rustic, rude, clownish, loutish, bearish, awkward, clumsy, ungainly, coarse, rough, unrefined, uncourtly, ungraceful, gawky, lubberly.
Boosy, a. See boozy.
Boot, n. Profit, advantage, gain, premium.
Boot, v. a. [Generally used impersonally.] Profit, benefit, advantage, avail, make difference.
Bootee, n. Bootikin, half-boot, short boot.
Bootikin, n.
- 1. Bootee, half-boot, short boot.
- 2. Half-glove, soft glove, mitten (made of oiled skin for gouty persons).
Bootless, a. Useless, unavailing, fruitless, futile, unprofitable, profitless, valueless, worthless, ineffectual, abortive, vain, idle, without avail.
Booty, n. Plunder (to be used for any purpose), spoil, pillage. See prey.
Boozy, a. [Written also Boosy.] Tipsy, bemused, inebriated, fuddled, disguised, maudlin, mellow, half- drunk, half-seas-over, in liquor.
Borax, n. Bi-borate of soda, tincal.
Border, n.
- 1. Edge, rim, brim, verge, brink, margin, marge, skirt.
- 2. Limit, boundary, confine, frontier, march.
Border, v. a. Put a border upon, adorn with a border, make a border for.
Border on.
- 1. Adjoin, be in contact with, be coterminous with, touch at the side or end of, be contiguous to, lie
adjacent to, be in juxtaposition with, border upon.