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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 to boot
 加之,而且

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Boot n.
 1. Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
    He gaf the sike man his boote.   --Chaucer.
 Thou art boot for many a bruise
 And healest many a wound.   --Sir W. Scott.
    Next her Son, our soul's best boot.   --Wordsworth.
 2. That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.
    I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one.   --Shak.
 3. Profit; gain; advantage; use. [Obs.]
    Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot.   --Shak.
 To boot, in addition; over and above; besides; as a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered.
    Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot.   --Shak.
    A man's heaviness is refreshed long before he comes to drunkenness, for when he arrives thither he hath but changed his heaviness, and taken a crime to boot.   --Jer. Taylor.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 to boot
      adv : by way of addition; furthermore; "he serves additionally as
            the CEO" [syn: additionally, in addition]