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Boose

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The dwarf Boose Griet as landlady with a burning piece of wood. In the caption verses in German, French and Dutch. Numbered center right: 32. Part of volume II in the second Dutch hardback edition from 1720 (and related to the Windhandel in that year) of a series of caricatures with dwarfs, known as Het Dwergentooneel.
The dwarf Boose Griet as landlady with a burning piece of wood. In the caption verses in German, French and Dutch. Numbered center right: 32. Part of volume II in the second Dutch hardback edition from 1720 (and related to the Windhandel in that year) of a series of caricatures with dwarfs, known as Het Dwergentooneel.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Boose
    A stall or a crib for an ox, cow, or other animal.
  2. Boose
    To drink excessively. See Booze.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) boose
    A stall or inclosure for cattle. Also boosy, bouse.
  2. (n) boose
    See booze.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Boose
    . See Bouse.
  2. (v.i) Boose
    to drink deeply
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary AS. bōs, bōsig,; akin to Icel. bāss, Sw. bås, Dan. baas, stall, G. banse, Goth. bansts, barn, Skr. bhāsas, stall. √252

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Dut. buysen, to drink deeply—buis, a tube or flask; allied to Box.

Usage in the news

Terry Boose understands all the issues and, while you may not agree with him on each one, he does an excellent job making sense of the complex issues and factors in state government. blog.cleveland.com

Georgetown — Evelyn Ruth (Snyder) Boose , 88, passed away peacefully on October 22, 2012 at her home in Georgetown. eagletribune.com

Boose understands local frustration. norwalkreflector.com

State Rep Terry Boose (R-Norwalk Township) said Wednesday he remembers what it's like to be a county commissioner. norwalkreflector.com

Boose served in that role in Huron County from 1997 to 2004. norwalkreflector.com

Greenbrier High School baseball standout Hunter Boose on Wednesday made official his decision to stay close to home. newstimes.augusta.com

Adam Boose returns to Dare Waves, Wednesday February 7th. ruw.org

Adam Boose , formerly of Furnace St, and currently in Brandston, will stop by Dare Waves on Wednesday, February 7th, sometime between 7:30 and 10:00PM. ruw.org

Greenbrier shortstop Hunter Boose finishes a double play before Cody McAllister can break it up in the top of the 2nd inning Wednesday night. newstimes.augusta.com

Deputy coroner Kenneth Boose identified the man who was slain as 20-year-old De'John Grant. onlineathens.com

Usage in scientific papers

Generation of rules with certainty and confidence factors from incomplete and incoherent learning bases. In J. Boose, B. Gaines, and M. Linster, editors, Proc. of EKAW'88, pages 28_1 _ 28_20. 1988. H.
Interestingness Measure for Mining Spatial Gene Expression Data using Association Rule

Usage in literature

Some of us was goin' back, though in the end we all went into Mulgatown and had a boose up with the boss. "Joe Wilson and His Mates" by Henry Lawson

To which particular boosing shed?... "Ulysses" by James Joyce

Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny. "Pelham, Complete" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Mostly sharpers in the boosing-kens. "Romance" by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer

A boose, a blue fright, two years' hard, and the police hot-foot after us even now. "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV" by Robert Louis Stevenson