Word Meanings - BOOTS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

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• HOTEL-DIEU
  A hospital.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• ELSEWHERE
  1. In any other place; as, these trees are not to be found elsewhere. 2. In some other place; in other places, indefinitely; as, it is reported in town and elsewhere.
• BLACKS
  1. The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press. 2. Soot flying in the air. 3. Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.
• CLEANSE
  To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet
• BLACKSTRAP
  1. A mixture of spirituous liquor and molasses. No blackstrap to-night; switchel, or ginger pop. Judd. 2. Bad port wine; any commo wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.
• SERVANT
  1. One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his
• SERVANTESS
  A maidservant. Wyclif.
• BOOTS
  A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
• CLEANSER
  One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent. Arbuthnot.
• HOTEL
  1. A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class. 2. In France, the mansion or town residence of a person of rank or wealth.
• BLACKSALTER
  One who,makes crude potash, or black salts.
• HOTEL-DE-VILLE
  A city hall or townhouse.
• SERVANTRY
  A body of servants; servants, collectively.
• BLACKSMITH
  A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, or Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color. (more info) 1. A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc. The blacksmith may forge what he pleases. Howell.
• MANSERVANT
  A male servant.
• CONSERVANT
  Having the power or quality of conservation.
• OBSERVANTLY
  In an observant manner.
• OBSERVANTINE
  One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.
• TOP-BOOTS
  High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light- colored leather around the upper part of the leg; riding boots.
• BOND SERVANT
  A slave; one who is bound to service without wages. If thy brother . . . be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant. Lev. xxv. 39, 40.
• BLACK SNAKE; BLACKSNAKE
  A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long. Note: The name is also applied to various other
• EYESERVANT
  A servant who attends faithfully to his duty only when watched.
• MAIDSERVANT
  A female servant.