BOON ISLAND. In Celia Thaxter's poem, _The Watch of Boon Island_, is told the story of two wedded lovers who tended the lighthouse on Boon Island until the husband died, when the wife Bowed her head and let the light die out, For the wide sea lay calm as her dead love, When evening fell from the far land, in doubt, Vainly to find that faithful star men strove. (1874.) BOONE (1 _syl._), colonel [afterwards "general"] Daniel Boone, in the United States' service, was one of the earliest settlers in Kentucky, where he signalized himself by many daring exploits against the Red Indians (1735-1820). 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 _Boötês_ or _Ursa Major_.--Pausanias, _Itinerary of Greece_, viii. 4. Doth not Orion worthily deserve A higher place ... Than frail Boötês, 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;" _borrachuélo_, "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.