(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:12:23

Boot"less (?), a. [From Boot profit.]

Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.

Chaucer.

I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. Shak.

-- Boot"less*ly, adv. -- Boot"less*ness, n.

 

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