noun

• A prayer; petition.
• That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
• A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.
• An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.

adjective

• Good; prosperous.
• Kind; bountiful; benign.
• (Now only in boon companion) gay; merry; jovial; convivial.

noun

• The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.