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A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.

A boy employed on shipboard.

A boy employed in a shop.

A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.

maller ones below and raised on legs fifteen inches or more in height; -- called also highboy.

A romping girl; a hoiden. [Colloq.] J. Fletcher.

To divest of the traits of a boy. [R.] Clarendon.

A favorite. [Obs.] See White, a., 6. "One of God's whiteboys." Bunyan.

The conduct or principle of the Whiteboys.

A very abject or low condition; abjectness. [R.] Boyle.

The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension. Boyle.

To consume gradually; to waste away. [Obs.] Boyle.

To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [R.] Boyle.

Custom; habitual use. [Obs.] Boyle.

Having a sour taste; sour; acid. "An acetous spirit." Boyle. "A liquid of an acetous kind." Bp. Lowth.

State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. [R.] Boyle.

state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies. "The affections of quantity." Boyle. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.

To pour out or upon. [R.] I first affused water upon the compressed beans. Boyle.

with; after the manner of; as, to make a thing after a model; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father. To name or call after, to name like and reference to. Our eldest son was named George after his uncle. Goldsmith.

faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue. Shaking it with agile hand. Cowper.