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booty
(encz) | booty,lup n: Zdeněk Brož |
booty
(encz) | booty,zadek n: [slang.] Petr Písař |
Booty
(gcide) | Booty \Boo"ty\, n. [Cf. Icel. b[=y]ti exchange, barter, Sw. byte
barter, booty, Dan. bytte; akin to D. buit booty, G. beute,
and fr. Icel. byta, Sw. byta, Dan. bytte, to distribute,
exchange. The Scandinavian word was influenced in English by
boot profit.]
That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery,
especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]
To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose;
to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in
order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him
afterwards. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.
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booty
(wn) | booty
n 1: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty,
pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money] |
BOOTY
(bouvier) | BOOTY, war. The capture of personal property by a public enemy on land, in
contradistinction to prize, which is a capture of such property by such an
enemy, on the sea.
2. After booty has been in complete possession of the enemy for twenty-
four hours, it becomes absolutely his, without any right of postliminy in
favor of the original owner, particularly when it has passed, bona fide,
into the hands of a neutral. 1 Kent, Com. 110.
3. The right to the booty, Pothier says, belongs to the sovereign but
sometimes the right of the sovereign, or the public, is transferred to the
soldiers, to encourage them. Tr. du Droit de Propriete, part 1, c. 2, art.
1, Sec. 2; Burl. Nat. and Pol. Law, vol. ii. part 4, o. 7, n. 12.
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booty
(encz) | booty,lup n: Zdeněk Brožbooty,zadek n: [slang.] Petr Písař |
Freebooty
(gcide) | Freebooty \Free"boot`y\, n.
Freebootery. [Obs.]
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To play booty
(gcide) | Booty \Boo"ty\, n. [Cf. Icel. b[=y]ti exchange, barter, Sw. byte
barter, booty, Dan. bytte; akin to D. buit booty, G. beute,
and fr. Icel. byta, Sw. byta, Dan. bytte, to distribute,
exchange. The Scandinavian word was influenced in English by
boot profit.]
That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery,
especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]
To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose;
to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in
order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him
afterwards. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.
[1913 Webster] |
booty
(wn) | booty
n 1: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty,
pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money] |
BOOTY
(bouvier) | BOOTY, war. The capture of personal property by a public enemy on land, in
contradistinction to prize, which is a capture of such property by such an
enemy, on the sea.
2. After booty has been in complete possession of the enemy for twenty-
four hours, it becomes absolutely his, without any right of postliminy in
favor of the original owner, particularly when it has passed, bona fide,
into the hands of a neutral. 1 Kent, Com. 110.
3. The right to the booty, Pothier says, belongs to the sovereign but
sometimes the right of the sovereign, or the public, is transferred to the
soldiers, to encourage them. Tr. du Droit de Propriete, part 1, c. 2, art.
1, Sec. 2; Burl. Nat. and Pol. Law, vol. ii. part 4, o. 7, n. 12.
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