The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boot \Boot\ (b[=oo]t), n. [OE. bot, bote, advantage, amends, cure, AS. b[=o]t; akin to Icel. b[=o]t, Sw. bot, Dan. bod, Goth. b[=o]ta, D. boete, G. busse; prop., a making good or better, from the root of E. better, adj. [root]255.]
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Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
He gaf the sike man his boote.
--Chaucer.Thou art boot for many a bruise And healest many a wound.
--Sir W. Scott.Next her Son, our soul's best boot.
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That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.
I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one.
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Profit; gain; advantage; use. [Obs.]
Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot.
--Shak.To boot, in addition; over and above; besides; as a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered.
Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot.
--Shak.A man's heaviness is refreshed long before he comes to drunkenness, for when he arrives thither he hath but changed his heaviness, and taken a crime to boot.
--Jer. Taylor.
Wiktionary
adv. (context idiomatic informal English) in addition, besides, also.
WordNet
adv. by way of addition; furthermore; "he serves additionally as the CEO" [syn: additionally, in addition]
Usage examples of "to boot".
He had no home, no clan, and he was a dangerously unpredictable beast to boot.
Sometimes it was hard to tell tropical languor from being a lazy bum, but Rance didn't feel easy about leaning on a guy half his age who outweighed him almost two to one and packed a pistol to boot.
He, too, had taken this train on his way to boot camp at Parris Island, but by himself, not with a hundred others to keep him company.
A fleeting thought ran through his mind: He, too, had taken this train on his way to boot camp at Parris Island, but by himself, not with a hundred others to keep him company.
When you need a feather touch, they're liable to be a hammer, and when you need a hammer, they're liable to be elsewhere, and stealing to boot.
He's one hundred percent devoted to American defense, and he happens to be a hell of a good man, to boot.
Half Hispanic, half black, a woman and a lesbian to boot, she satisfied multiple minority groups.
That just gives the Mizlaplanians, with their superior telepath and hypno to boot, a free hand,".
They were strong, young and had powerful arms to boot, whereas he was alone.