Adjacent Words
To blow one's own trumpetTo blow out
To blow over
To blow up
To blow upon
To blunder on
To blurt at
To boast one's self
To boat the oars
To bob at an apple
To body forth
To boil away
To boil down
To boil over
To bolt to the bran
To borrow trouble
to both ears
To bowl
To box a tree
To box off
To box the compass
To box up
To boy a pig a poke
To brace a yard
To brace about
To brace in
To brace one's self
To brace sharp
To brace to
To brace up
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
adv
1: in addition, by way of addition; furthermore; "he serves additionally as the CEO" [syn: additionally, to boot]
Merriam Webster's
phrasal besides
Webster's 1913 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.] 1. 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. --Wordsworth. 2. 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. --Shak. 3. 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.
Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
Besides, in addition, over and above.
