n. a boy who assists a priest at the clebration of the Holy Mass and other forms of public worship; -- also called acolyte. [ PJC ]

n. (Baseball) A boy who holds the bats and presents the bat to a batter when the batter is going to the batter's box to bat. The batboy sometimes also keeps other team equipment. [ PJC ]

n. someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels.
Syn. -- bellman, bellhop. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. D. boef, Fries. boi, boy; akin to G. bube, Icel. bofi rouge. ] 1. A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son. [ 1913 Webster ]

My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Boy is often used as a term of comradeship, as in college, or in the army or navy. In the plural used colloquially of members of an associaton, fraternity, or party. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In various countries, a male servant, laborer, or slave of a native or inferior race; also, any man of such a race; -- considered derogatory by those so called, and now seldom used. [ derog. ]

He reverted again and again to the labor difficulty, and spoke of importing boys from Capetown. Frances Macnab. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Boy bishop, a boy (usually a chorister) elected bishop, in old Christian sports, and invested with robes and other insignia. He practiced a kind of mimicry of the ceremonies in which the bishop usually officiated. --
The Old Boy, the Devil. [ Slang ] --
Yellow boys, guineas. [ Slang, Eng. ] --
Boy's love, a popular English name of Southernwood (Artemisia abrotonum); -- called also lad's love. --
Boy's play, childish amusements; anything trifling. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall see
Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Bushman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Ir. & Gael carb basket; or Pers qurābah a sort of bottle. ] A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a boy who sings in a choir. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a day boarder who is a boy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Weaving) A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A page; an attendant in livery; a lackey. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. hautbois, lit., high wood; haut high + bois wood. So called on account of its high tone. See Haughty, Bush; and cf. Oboe. ] 1. (Mus.) A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A page; a servant. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who lives high; also, in politics, a highflyer. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A kind of tall chest of drawers, with drawers up to near or above eye level and fouyr legs at the base; it is often divided into lower and upper sections, with the lower section somewhat wider than the upper; also called a tallboy. Compare lowboy. [ U. S. ] “Mahogany highboys glittering with brass handles.” K. L. Bates. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. A hautboy or oboe. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See 1st Link. ] A boy or man that carried a link or torch to light passengers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A chest of drawers not more than four feet high; -- applied commonly to the lower half of a tallboy from which the upper half has been removed. [ U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. [ From a district in the Island of Martinique where it is made: cf. F. macouba. ] A kind of snuff. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as mamma's boy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A boy excessively attached to his mother; a boy lacking the usual masculine interests; also spelled mamma's boy.
Syn. -- mother's boy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A boy who distributes or sells newspapers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A type of hairdo. [ PJC ]

n. A boy who sells or delivers newspapers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ }, n. A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who rides post horses; a position; a courier. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A boy who carries letters from the post. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A boy who carries pots of ale, beer, etc.; a menial in a public house. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A boy belonging to, or attending, a school. [ 1913 Webster ]

A boy employed on shipboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A boy employed in a shop. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A kind of long-stemmed wineglass or cup. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A piece of household furniture common in the eighteenth century, usually in two separate parts, with larger drawers above and smaller ones below and raised on legs fifteen inches or more in height; -- called also highboy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. A long sheet-metal pipe for a chimney top. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Tom (for Thomas, L. Thomas, fr. Gr. &unr_; )+ boy. ] A romping girl; a hoiden. [ Colloq. ] J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + boy. ] To divest of the traits of a boy. [ R. ] Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A favorite. [ Obs. ] See White, a., 6. “One of God's whiteboys.” Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of an association of poor Roman catholics which arose in Ireland about 1760, ostensibly to resist the collection of tithes, the members of which were so called from the white shirts they wore in their nocturnal raids. [ 1913 Webster ]