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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bootless \Boot"less\, a. [From Boot profit.]
   Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or
   success. --Chaucer.
   [1913 Webster]

         I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. --Shak.
   [1913 Webster] -- Boot"less*ly, adv. -- Boot"less*ness,
   n.
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