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Sunburn; tan. Boyle.

The act of superintending; superintendence. Boyle.

endulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer, in case of exsuction of the air. Boyle.

To reason by means of syllogisms. Men have endeavored . . . to teach boys to syllogize, or frame arguments and refute them, without any real inward knowledge of the question. I. Watts.

To agree; to be in harmony. [R.] Boyle.

Happening at the same time; synchronous. Boyle. -- Syn*chron"ic*al*ly, adv.

ded as forming one complete plan of whole; the universe. "The great system of the world." Boyle.

to the system of the world; cosmical. These ends may be called cosmical, or systematical. Boyle.

One who theologizes; a theologian. [R.] Boyle.

Given to stealing; addicted to theft; as, a thievish boy, a thievish magpie.

nge. [R.] As for the white part, it appears much less enriched with the tingent property. Boyle.

To feel a sharp, thrilling pain. The pale boy senator yet tingling stands. Pope.

Very small; little; puny. When that I was and a little tiny boy. Shak.

. -- Toga virilis Etym: [L.], the manly gown; the common toga. This was assumed by Roman boys about the time of completing their fourteenth year.

A rude, wild, wanton girl; a hoiden; a tomboy. Dennis.

t; erroneous; deceitful. That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the Jakobites. Macaulay.

A boys' game; tag. In touch (Football), outside of bounds. T. Hughes. -- To be in touch, to be in contact, or in sympathy. -- To keep touch. (a) To be true or punctual to a promise or engagement [Obs.]; hence, to fulfill duly a function. My mind and senses keep touch and time. Sir W. Scott.

Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.

mpany assembles for drill or parade. [U. S.] -- Training ship, a vessel on board of which boys are trained as sailors.

The act of trajecting; a throwing or casting through or across; also, emission. Boyle.