Boot"jack` (&?;), n. A device for pulling off boots.
Boot"less (&?;), a. [From Boot profit.] Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success. Chaucer.
I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.
Shak.
-- Boot"less*ly, adv. -- Boot"less*ness, n.
Boot"lick` (&?;), n. A toady. [Low, U. S.] Bartlett.
Boot"mak`er (&?;), n. One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
Boots (&?;), n. A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
Boot"top`ping (&?;), n. 1. (Naut.) The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.