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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.

In a boyish manner; like a boy.

The manners or behavior of a boy.

Boyhood. [Obs.] T. Warton.

See under Law.

A chronic contagious affection of the skin, prevalent in the tropics.

The resiniferous tree Agathis Dammara, of the Moluccas.

ed and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc.

A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel. [Eng.]

See Bushman.