Definitions for Bootes

Bootes Bo·ö·tes

Spelling: [boh-oh-teez]
IPA: /boʊˈoʊ tiz/

Bootes is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in Bootes (beoost).

Definitions for Bootes

noun

  1. the Herdsman, a northern constellation between Ursa Major and Serpens, containing the bright star Arcturus.

Origin of Bootes

1650-60; Latin Greek Boṓtēs literally, ox-driver

Examples for Bootes

The Benedictine monks wore bootes, I beleeve, like these—at least 1/2 bootes.

But neither the virgin of Tegea, nor the sword-bearing Orion, 906 the companion of bootes, will have to be beheld by thee.

But all the yeare he wore a kind of bootes of Spanish leather, laced or tyed along the sides with black ribons.

A comet was first seen at Tewkesbury, England, near two small stars in the hand of bootes.

It has always appeared to me, by the way, that bootes originally had nobler proportions than astronomers now assign to him.

A merchant with a forked beard, "a Flandrish beaver hat, and bootes clasped fair and fetisly."

Charles's Wain lay inverted in the northern horizon; bootes had driven his sparkling herd down the slope of the western sky.

In 1652 a man was fined for excess of apparel "in bootes, rebonds, gould and silver lace."

Your lordshipp is learned as well as I (it is bootles & I should offer you the bootes), you knowing the Latine to expounde.

bootes as 58a constellation is easily found if we remember that he is delineated as chasing away the Greater Bear.

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