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ng language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls. Macaulay.

A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level. Raymond.

The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano.

or possible to be tried; liable to be subjected to trial or test. "Experiments triable." Boyle.

Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as, the tricks of boys. Prior.

A trigger. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Boyle.

ne who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard. Boyle.

The act of reprimanding or chastisting; as, to give a boy a trimming. [Colloq.]

ss; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex. Now is my soul troubled. John xii. 27. Take the boy to you; he so troubles me 'T is past enduring. Shak. Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure. Locke.

A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately. pants; used attrib. in the singular, as a trouser leg; see pant

Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy. While truant Jove, in infant pride, Played barefoot on Olympus' side. Trumbull.

r or disorderly movement; commotion; as, the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid. [Obs.] Boyle.

To put into tuns, or casks. Boyle.

he body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid. Boyle.

Typical. "Typic shades." Boyle.

Being beyond the world, or beyond the limits of our system. Boyle.

Inaccurate. Boyle.

Inaccuracy. Boyle.

betrayed him under the guise of friendship; Morpheus is represented under the figure of a boy asleep. A crew who, under names of old renown . . . abused Fanatic Egypt. Milton. Mr. Duke may be mentioned under the double capacity of a poet and a divine. Felton. Under this head may come in the several contests and wars be…

Not having arrived at adult age, or at years of discretion; hence, raw; green; immature; boyish; childish. [Obs.] I myself have loved a lady, and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation. J. Webster.