n. [ Cf. D. boef, Fries. boi, boy; akin to G. bube, Icel. bofi rouge. ] 1. A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son. [ 1913 Webster ]

My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Boy is often used as a term of comradeship, as in college, or in the army or navy. In the plural used colloquially of members of an associaton, fraternity, or party. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In various countries, a male servant, laborer, or slave of a native or inferior race; also, any man of such a race; -- considered derogatory by those so called, and now seldom used. [ derog. ]

He reverted again and again to the labor difficulty, and spoke of importing boys from Capetown. Frances Macnab. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Boy bishop, a boy (usually a chorister) elected bishop, in old Christian sports, and invested with robes and other insignia. He practiced a kind of mimicry of the ceremonies in which the bishop usually officiated. --
The Old Boy, the Devil. [ Slang ] --
Yellow boys, guineas. [ Slang, Eng. ] --
Boy's love, a popular English name of Southernwood (Artemisia abrotonum); -- called also lad's love. --
Boy's play, childish amusements; anything trifling. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall see
Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Russ. boiárin'. ] A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ English writers sometimes call Russian landed proprietors boyars. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Boyaux or Boyaus [ F. boyau gut, a long and narrow place, and (of trenches) a branch. See Bowel. ] (Fort.) A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Boycotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Boycotting. ] [ From Captain Boycott, a land agent in Mayo, Ireland, so treated in 1880. ] To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A participant in boycotting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Methods of boycotters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dagger; a bodkin. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. boeijer; -- so called because these vessels were employed for laying the boeijen, or buoys: cf. F. boyer. See Buoy. ] (Naut.) A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]