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.
Boot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Booted; p. pr. & vb. n. Booting.] 1. 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.