Of all men, saving Sylla the man-slayer... 
  The general Boone, the back-woodsman of Kentucky,
  Was happiest among mortals anywhere, etc.

  Byron, Don Juan, viii. 61-65 (1821).

BOOSHAL’LOCH (Neil), cowherd to Ian Eachin M’Ian, chief of the clan Quhele.—­Sir W. Scott, The Fair Maid of Perth (time, Henry IV.).

BOO’TES (3 syl.), Arcas son of Jupiter and Calisto.  One day his mother, in the semblance of a bear, met him, and Arcas was on the point of killing it, when Jupiter, to prevent the murder, converted him into a constellation, either Booetes or Ursa Major.—­Pausanias, Itinerary of Greece, viii. 4.

  Doth not Orion worthily deserve
  A higher place ... 
  Than frail Booetes, who was placed above
  Only because the gods did else foresee
  He should the murderer of his mother be?

  Lord Brooke, Of Nobility.

BOOTH, husband of Amelia.  Said to be a drawing of the author’s own character and experiences.  He has all the vices of Tom Jones, with an additional share of meanness.—­Fielding, Amelia (1751).

BORACH’IO, a follower of don John of Aragon.  He is a great villain, engaged to Margaret, the waiting-woman of Hero.—­Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing (1600).

Borach’io, a drunkard. (Spanish, borracho, “drunk;” borrachuelo, “a tippler.”)

“Why, you stink of wine!  D’ye think my niece will ever endure such a borachio?  You’re an absolute Borachio.”—­W.  Congreve, The Way of the World (1700).

Borachio (Joseph), landlord of the Eagle Hotel, in Salamanca.—­Jephson, Two Strings to your Bow (1792).

BOR’AK (Al), the animal brought by Gabriel to convey Mahomet to the seventh heaven.  The word means “lightning.”  Al Borak had the face of a man, but the cheeks of a horse; its eyes were like jacinths, but brilliant as the stars; it had eagle’s wings, glistened all over with radiant light, and it spoke with a human voice.  This was one of the ten animals (not of the race of man) received into paradise.

Borak was a fine-limbed, high-standing horse, strong in frame, and with a coat as glossy as marble.  His color was saffron, with one hair of gold for every three of tawny; his ears were restless and pointed like a reed; his eyes large and full of fire; his nostrils wide and steaming; he had a white star on his forehead, a neck gracefully arched, a mane soft and silky, and a thick tail that swept the ground.—­Groquemitaine. ii. 9.

BORDER MINSTREL (The), sir Walter Scott (1771-1832).

  My steps the Border Minstrel led.

W. Wordsworth, Yarrow Revisited.

BO’REAS, the north wind.  He lived in a cave on mount Haemus, in Thrace.

  Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer.

G. A. Stephens, The Shipivreck.