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One who packs boxes.

The trunkfish.

er short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind). Totten.

A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul.

The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.

The first week day after Christmas, a legal holiday on which Christmas boxes are given to postmen, errand boys, employees, etc. The night of this day is boxing night. [Eng.]

An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.

A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum.

The wood of the box (Buxus).

A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son. My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee. Sir W. Scott.

Orig., a member of the "Boy Scouts," an organization of boys founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to promote good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty and of usefulness to others, by stimulating their interest in wholesome mental, moral, industrial, and physical activities, etc. Hence, a mem…

A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.

A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.

ness relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.

A participant in boycotting.

Methods of boycotters.

A dagger; a bodkin. [Obs.]

A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end. Sir W. Raleigh.

The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy. Hood.

Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile. A boyish, odd conceit. Baillie.