| boot | A boot-shaped appliance. Origin: M. E. Bote, fr. O. Fr. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| booted | 1. Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire. 2. <ornithology, zoology> Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; said of the tarsus of some birds. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bootes | <astronomy> A northern constellation, containing the bright star Arcturus. Origin: L. Bootes, Gr. Herdsman, fr, gen, ox, cow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| boothy | Origin: Scottish. Cf. Booth. A wooden hut or humble cot, especially. A rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bootstrap current | <radiobiology> Currents driven in toroidal devices by neo-classical diffusion. They may amount to a substantial fraction of the net current in a tokamak reactor, thus lengthening the pulse time or decreasing the power needed for current drive. (09 Oct 1997) |
| boottopping | 1. 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. 2. Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| boottree | 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) Origin: Boot + tree wood, timber. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Gibney's boot | Adhesive tape treatment of a sprained ankle or similar condition, applied in a basket-weave fashion under the sole of the foot and around the back of the lower leg. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Junod's boot | An airtight case into which the arm or leg is inserted and the air is then exhausted; used to divert a portion of the blood temporarily from the general circulation. (05 Mar 2000) |