Part 1329

<hw>Box"wood`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The wood of the box (<spn>Buxus</spn>).</def>

<h1>Boy</h1> <Xpage=173>

<hw>Boy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. D. <ets>boef</ets>, Fries. <ets>boi</ets>, <ets>boy</ets>; akin to G. <ets>bube</ets>, Icel. <ets>bofi</ets> rouge.]</ety> <def>A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.</def>

<blockquote>My only <b>boy</b> fell by the side of great Dundee. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; <i>Boy</i> 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 assosiaton, fraternity, or party.</note>

<cs><col>Boy bishop</col>, <cd>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.</cd> <col>The Old Boy</col>, <cd>the Devil.</cd> <mark>[Slang]</mark> -- <col>Yellow boys</col>, <cd>guineas.</cd> <mark>[Slang, Eng.]</mark> -- <col>Boy's love</col>, <cd>a popular English name of Southernwood (<spn>Artemisia abrotonum</spn>);) -- called also <altname>lad's love</altname>.</cd> -- <col>Boy's play</col>, <cd>childish amusements; anything trifling.</cd></cs>

<h1>Boy</h1> <Xpage=173>

<hw>Boy</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.</def>

<blockquote>I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra <b>boy</b> my greatness. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Boyar, Boyard</h1> <Xpage=173>

<hw><hw>Bo*yar"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Bo*yard"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Russ. <ets>boi\'a0rin'</ets>.]</ety> <def>A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.</def>

<note>&hand; English writers sometimes call Russian landed proprietors <i>boyars</i>.</note>

<h1>Boyau</h1> <Xpage=173>

<hw>Boy"au</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Boyaux</plw> or <plw>Boyaus</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[F. <ets>boyau</ets> gut, a long and narrow place, and (of trenches) a branch. See <er>Bowel</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Fort.)</fld> <def>A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.</def>

<h1>Boycott</h1> <Xpage=173>

<hw>Boy"cott`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Boycotted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Boycotting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[From Captain <ets>Boycott</ets>, a land agent in Mayo, Ireland, so treated in 1880.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Boycott</h1> <Xpage=173>

<hw>Boy"cott</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Boycotter</h1> <Xpage=173>

<hw>Boy"cott`er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A participant in boycotting.</def>

<h1>Boycottism</h1> <Xpage=173>

<hw>Boy"cott*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Methods of boycotters.</def>

<h1>Boydekin</h1> <Xpage=173>

<hw>Boy"de*kin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A dagger; a bodkin.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Boyer</h1> <Xpage=173>

<hw>Boy"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[D. <ets>boeijer</ets>; -- so called because these vessels were employed for laying the <ets>boeijen</ets>, or buoys: cf. F. <ets>boyer</ets>. See <er>Buoy</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.</def>

<i>Sir W. Raleigh.</i>

<h1>Boyhood</h1> <Xpage=173>