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noun

Boon n.

A prayer or petition. (Obs.) "For which to God he made so many an idle boon."

That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present. "Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above."

Boon n. The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

adjective

Boon adj.

Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage. (Obs.)

Kind; bountiful; benign. "Which... Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain."

Gay; merry; jovial; convivial. "A boon companion, loving his bottle."

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Etymology of 'Boon'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Boon" Quotes from Famous Books

... become defects. After the manner of successful persons, civilized man would gladly kick down the ladder by which he has climbed. He would be only too pleased to see "the ape and tiger die." But they decline to suit his convenience; and the unwelcome intrusion of these boon companions of his hot youth into the ranged existence of civil life adds pains and griefs, innumerable and immeasurably great, to those which the cosmic process necessarily brings on the mere animal. In fact, ...

— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley

... ever doted on me, bent his knee before his master: "A boon!" he cried, "my first and last, Duke Casimir—this maid's ...

— Red Axe • Samuel Rutherford Crockett

... America, across the Sahara, deep into the African jungle, up where the Alaskan volcanoes spout, down among the head hunters of Borneo and many other places where there is danger and excitement. Every boy who has known Tom Swift will at once become the boon companion ...

— The Rover Boys on the Farm - or Last Days at Putnam Hall • Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)

... AEoelus his kingdom holds On the deep Tuscan main, who curbs the winds In cavern'd prisons; which, a noble boon! Close pent within an ox's stubborn hide, Dulichium's chief, from AEoelus receiv'd. How for nine days with prosperous breeze they sail'd; And saw the long-sought land. How on the tenth, Aurora rising bright, his comrades, urg'd By envy, and by thirst of glittering spoil, Gold deeming there ...

— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid

... was Prince Regent. O'Connell's agitation commenced soon after, and in nine years after the royal visit emancipation was extorted by the dread of civil war, frankly avowed by the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel. But this boon left the masses nearly where they had been, only more conscious of their power, and more determined to use it, in the removal ...

— The Land-War In Ireland (1870) - A History For The Times • James Godkin

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