Defn: To act as a boy; — in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage. I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness. Shak.
BOYAR; BOYARD
Bo*yar", Bo*yard", n. Etym: [Russ. boiárin'.]
Defn: A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the
Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.
Note: English writers sometimes call Russian landed proprietors boyars.
BOYAU Boy"au, n.; pl. Boyaux or Boyaus. Etym: [F. boyau gut, a long and narrow place, and (of trenches) a branch. See Bowel.] (Fort.)
Defn: A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.
BOYCOTT
Boy"cott`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boycotted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Boycotting.] Etym: [From Captain Boycott, a land agent in Mayo,
Ireland, so treated in 1880.]
Defn: 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.
BOYCOTT
Boy"cott, n.
Defn: 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.