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ash account (Bookkeeping), an account of money received, disbursed, and on hand. -- Cash boy, in large retail stores, a messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier, and returns the proper change. [Colloq.] -- Cash credit, an account with a bank by which a person or house, havin…

A boy kept for unnatural purposes.

One who cavils. Cavilers at the style of the Scriptures. Boyle.

One who celebrates; a praiser. Boyle.

Taken or left in place of another; changed. "A little changeling boy." Shak.

A man or boy; a youth; a fellow. [Colloq.]

Overalls of sheepskin or leather, usually open at the back, worn, esp. by cowboys, to protect the legs from thorny bushes, as in the chaparral; -- called also chapareras or colloq. chaps. [Sp. Amer.]

am glad to see the vanity or envy of the canting chemists thus discovered and chastised. Boyle.

A female infant. [Obs.] A boy or a child, I wonder Shak. To be with child, to be pregnant. -- Child's play, light work; a trifling contest.

ndo rustica). -- Chimney sweep, Chimney sweeper, one who cleans chimneys of soot; esp. a boy who climbs the flue, and brushes off the soot.

asily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals. Boyle.

tously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. Boyle.

To set down somewhat circumstantially, not only the events, but the manner of my trials. Boyle.

A chorister boy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Lacking clearness, brightness, or luster. "A cloudy diamond." Boyle.

Capable of being coagulated. Boyle.

To undergo coagulation. Boyle.

Having the power to cause coagulation; as, a coagulative agent. Boyle.

Serving to coagulate; produced by coagulation; as, coagulatory effects. Boyle.

laying the game; -- called also huckle bone. [Obs.] Nares. A little transverse bone Which boys and bruckeled children call (Playing for points and pins) cockal. Herrick.