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Boston
(Bos"ton) n. A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; — said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.

Boswellian
(Bos*well"i*an) a. Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.

Boswellism
(Bos"well*ism) n. The style of Boswell.

Bot
(Bot) n. (Zoöl.) See Bots.

Botanic
(Bo*tan"ic Bo*tan"ic*al) a. [Cf. F. botanique. See Botany.] Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. — Botan"ic*al*ly, adv.

Botanic garden, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. — Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots.

Botanist
(Bot"a*nist) n. [Cf. F. botaniste.] One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.

Botanize
(Bot"a*nize) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Botanized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Botanizing ] [Cf. F. botaniser.] To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.

Botanize
(Bot"a*nize), v. t. To explore for botanical purposes.

Botanizer
(Bot"a*ni`zer) n. One who botanizes.

Botanologer
(Bot`a*nol"o*ger) n. A botanist. [Obs.]

Botanology
(Bot`a*nol"o*gy) n. [Botany + -logy: cf. F. botanologie.] The science of botany. [Obs.] Bailey.

Botanomancy
(Bot"a*no*man`cy) n. [Botany + -mancy: cf. F. botanomantie.] An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves.

Botany
(Bot"a*ny) n.; pl. Botanies [F. botanique, a. & n., fr. Gr. botanic, fr. herb, plant, fr. to feed, graze.]

1. The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See Plant.

2. A book which treats of the science of botany.

Botany is divided into various departments; as,

Structural Botany, which investigates the structure and organic composition of plants; Physiological Botany, the study of their functions and life; and Systematic Botany, which has to do with their classification, description, nomenclature, etc.

Botany Bay
(Bot"a*ny Bay") A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; — so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.

Hence, any place to which desperadoes resort.

Botany Bay kino (Med.), an astringent, reddish substance consisting of the inspissated juice of several Australian species of Eucalyptus. — Botany Bay resin (Med.), a resin of reddish yellow color, resembling gamboge, the product of different Australian species of Xanthorrhæa, esp. the grass tree