BOX TAIL
Box tail. (Aëronautics)
Defn: In a flying machine, a tail or rudder, usually fixed, resembling a box kite.
BOXTHORN
Box"thorn`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum.
BOXWOOD
Box"wood`, n.
Defn: The wood of the box (Buxus).
BOY Boy, n. Etym: [Cf. D. boef, Fries. boi, boy; akin to G. bube, Icel. bofi rouge.]
Defn: 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.
Note: 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 assosiaton, fraternity, or party. 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.
BOY
Boy, v. t.