Boot"tree` (&?;), n. [Boot + tree wood, timber.] An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven.
The pretty boots trimly stretched on boottrees.
Thackeray.
Boo"ty (&?;), n. [Cf. Icel. b&?;ti exchange, barter, Sw. byte barter, booty, Dan. bytte; akin to D. buit booty, G. beute, and fr. Icel. byta, Sw. byta, Dan. bytte, to distribute, exchange. The Scandinavian word was influenced in English by boot profit.] That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. Milton.
To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [Obs.] L'Estrange.
Booze (&?;), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Boozed (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Boozing.] [D. buizen; akin to G. bausen, and perh. fr. D. buis tube, channel, bus box, jar.] To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple. [Written also bouse, and boose.] Landor.
This is better than boozing in public houses.
H. R. Haweis.
Booze, n. A carouse; a drinking. Sir W. Scott.
Booz"er (&?;), n. One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.
Booz"y (&?;), a. A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley.
Bo*peep" (&?;), n. [Bo + peep.] The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.
I for sorrow sung,
That such a king should play bopeep,
And go the fools among.
Shak.