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Boon   /bun/   Listen
noun
Boon  n.  
1.
A prayer or petition. (Obs.) "For which to God he made so many an idle boon."
2.
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.  
1.
Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage. (Obs.)
2.
Kind; bountiful; benign. "Which... Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain."
3.
Gay; merry; jovial; convivial. "A boon companion, loving his bottle."





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"Boon" Quotes from Famous Books



... these. Instead of letting him suffocate in the exhausted air indoors, let him be taken every day, far out into the fields. There let him run about, play, fall down a hundred times a day; the oftener the better, as he will the sooner learn to get up again by himself. The boon of freedom is worth many scars. My pupil will have many bruises, but to make amends for that, he will be always light-hearted. Though your pupils are less often hurt, they are continually thwarted, fettered; they are always unhappy. I doubt whether ...
— Emile - or, Concerning Education; Extracts • Jean Jacques Rousseau
... since thou will'st that happy thence he'll be, I send him forth, and back I'll choke the grief Rebellious rises in my lonely heart. I pray thee, God, my loved one joy to bring; I dare not hope that joy will be with me, But ah, dear God, one boon I crave of thee, That he shall ne'er ...
— Violets and Other Tales • Alice Ruth Moore
... change the peculiar conditions in each case may call for. But the use of universal time will not necessarily involve a change; it will rather be something added to what all now possess. It will be a boon to those ...
— International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day. October, 1884. • Various
... Was snatched from her Empire by Death's cruel clutches; When to Heaven she came (for thither she went) Each Angel received her with Joy and Content. On her knees she fell down, Before the bright Throne, And begged that God's Mother would grant her one Boon: Give England a Son (at this Critical Point) To put little Orange's Nose out ...
— Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry • Edmund Goldsmid
... then hear my prayer, Suffer not ladies the scarlet to wear; And, Sir, you must grant me this boon beside, Let no boor's son a good courser ...
— Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams - and other ballads • Thomas J. Wise


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