Definition of boy

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Boy (v. t.) To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.

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Emboyssement :: Emboyssement (n.) An ambush.
Cowboy :: Cowboy (n.) A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States..
Sea Boy :: Sea boy () A boy employed on shipboard.
Prime :: Prime (a.) To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to post; to coach; as, to prime a witness; the boys are primed for mischief..
Gossoon :: Gossoon (n.) A boy; a servant.
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack.
Epicene :: Epicene (a. & n.) Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites..
Trapper :: Trapper (n.) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.
Boyle''s Law :: Boyle's law () See under Law.
Flamboyer :: Flamboyer (n.) A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinia..
Linkman :: Linkman (n.) A boy or man that carried a link or torch to light passengers.
Princox :: Princox (n.) A coxcomb; a pert boy.
Maccoboy :: Maccoboy (n.) A kind of snuff.
Sloven :: Sloven (n.) A man or boy habitually negligent of neathess and order; -- the correlative term to slattern, or slut..
Pack :: Pack (n.) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; -- sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school..
What :: What (pron., a., & adv.) Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!.
Venturesome :: Venturesome (a.) Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act..
Barringout :: Barringout (n.) The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools.
Newsboy :: newsboy (n.) A boy who distributes or sells newspaper.
Kyaboca Wood :: Kyaboca wood () Amboyna wood.
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