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Definition of Booses
1. boose [v] - See also: boose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Booses
Literary usage of Booses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"... times made their way into the dwellings, these having been especially noticed
toward evening, when the booses were shut up and the fires were lighted. ..."
2. Diary and correspondence of samuel pepys f.r.s.. by Samuel Pepys (1854)
"Lord! the number of booses visited, which this day I observed through the town,
quite round in my way, by Long Lane and London WaD. To Sir \V. Batten, ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"In 1752, he discovered the identity of Ш electricity with lightning, and turned
his discovery to account by publishing a plan for defending booses from ..."
4. The London Medical Gazette (1850)
"... to revisit the same booses aod streets, 349 ; contagiousness of, 349 ; ei-
penses of, in Ireland, in 1649-50367; mortality by, in the Indian armies,:!0. ..."
5. London and Middlesex: Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive Survey of by Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale (1810)
"... by which the contagion was principally extended, it was in many instances
beneficial; yet, had a sufficient number of Pest-booses been ..."
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