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A boy; especially, a boy servant. [Obs.] Wyclif. Chaucer. O murderous slumber, Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy That plays thee music Gentle knave, good night. Shak.

A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble by boys in playing. [Prov. Eng. & U. S.] Halliwell. Bartlett.

Amboyna wood.

A chemist. [Obs.] Boyle.

An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower. Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. Shak. Lackey caterpillar (Zoöl.), the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party- colored markings. The common European species (C. neustria) is striped with…

ctescence does commonly ensue when . . . fair water is suddenly poured upon the solution. Boyle.

A boy; a youth; a stripling. "Cupid is a knavish lad." Shak. There is a lad here, which hath fire barley loaves and two small fishes. John vi. 9.

usion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen take off with ladles. Boyle.

. (Dog Latin, barbarous Latin; a jargon in imitation of Latin; as, the log Latin of schoolboys. -- Late Latin, Low Latin, terms used indifferently to designate the latest stages of the Latin language; low Latin (and, perhaps, late Latin also), including the barbarous coinages from the French, German, and other languag…

by the series 0, 1, 2, 4, 8, etc., the true distances being given in the lower line. -- Boyle's law (Physics), an expression of the fact, that when an elastic fluid is subjected to compression, and kept at a constant temperature, the product of the pressure and volume is a constant quantity, i. e., the volume is inve…

A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former.

ne; on the same footing; of equal importance; -- followed by with, sometimes by to. Young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone. Shak. Everything lies level to our wish. Shak.

To liken; to compare.[Obs.] Like me to the peasant boys of France. Shak.

The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness. Boyle.

Lineament; feature; figure. "The lines of my boy's face." Shak.

. Amboyna wood.

kaline salts extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a lixivium. Boyle.

Impregnated with salts from wood ashes. Boyle.

es used in tanning. Also, a similar West Indian tree (Laplacea hæmatoxylon). -- Loblolly boy, a surgeon's attendant on shipboard. Smollett. -- Loblolly pine (Bot.), a kind of pitch pine found from Delaware southward along the coast; old field pine (Pinus Tæda). Also, P. Bahamensis, of the West Indies. -- Loblolly tr…

ough it pass. Spenser. To lock into, to fit or slide into; as, they lock into each other. Boyle.