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

(Med.) A chronic contagious affection of the skin, prevalent in the tropics. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Bot.) The resiniferous tree Agathis Dammara, of the Moluccas. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ Russ. boiárin'. ] A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ English writers sometimes call Russian landed proprietors boyars. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Boyaux or Boyaus [ F. boyau gut, a long and narrow place, and (of trenches) a branch. See Bowel. ] (Fort.) A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Boycotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Boycotting. ] [ From Captain Boycott, a land agent in Mayo, Ireland, so treated in 1880. ] To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A participant in boycotting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Methods of boycotters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dagger; a bodkin. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. boeijer; -- so called because these vessels were employed for laying the boeijen, or buoys: cf. F. boyer. See Buoy. ] (Naut.) A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Boy + -hood. ] The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy. Hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile. [ 1913 Webster ]

A boyish, odd conceit. Baillie. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a boyish manner; like a boy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The manners or behavior of a boy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Boyhood. [ Obs. ] T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The nature of a boy; childishness. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

See under Law. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. same as boyish.
Syn. -- boyish, schoolboyish. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690, where William III of England defeated the deposed James II and so ended Stuart Catholicism in England.
Syn. -- battle of Boyne, battle of the Boyne. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) a Eurafrican annual (Mercurialis annua) naturalized in America as a weed; formerly dried for use as a purgative, diuretic or antisyphilitic.
Syn. -- herb mercury, herbs mercury. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. Orig., a member of the “Boy Scouts, ” an organization of boys founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to promote good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty and of usefulness to others, by stimulating their interest in wholesome mental, moral, industrial, and physical activities, etc. Hence, a member of any of the other similar organizations, which are now worldwide. In “The Boy Scouts of America” the local councils are generally under a scout commissioner, under whose supervision are scout masters, each in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts each, who are of three classes, tenderfoot, second-class scout, and first-class scout. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. a cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a raspberrylike flavor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a large raspberry-flavored bramble fruit; a cross between blackberries and raspberries. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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. [ See Embushment. ] An ambush. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. ] (Arch.) Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. flamboyer to be bright. ] (Bot.) A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Cæsalpinia. [ 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. [ Cf. F. hautboïste. ] A player on the hautboy. [ 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. pl. [ Cf. F. lambeau. Cf. Label. ] (Anc. Armor) Same as Base, n., 19. [ 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 ]