BOY
BOY, noun [Latin puer for puger, for we see by puella, that r is not radical. So the Gr. probably is contracted, for the derivative verb, forms.]A male child, from birth to the ...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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BOYAR
BOY'AR, noun A Russian nobleman. [See Boiar.]
BOYAU
BOY'AU, noun boy'o. In fortification, a ditch covered with a parapet, serving as a communication between two trenches.BOY'-BLIND, adjective Blind as a boy; undiscerning.
BOYER
BOY'ER, noun A Flemish sloop, with a castle at each end.
BOYHOOD
BOY'HOOD, adjective [boy and hood.] The state of a boy, or of immature age.
BOYISH
BOY'ISH, adjective Belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; resembling a boy in manners or opinions; puerile.
BOYISHLY
BOY'ISHLY, adverb Childishly; in a trifling manner.
BOYISHNESS
BOY'ISHNESS, noun Childishness; the manners or behavior of a boy.
BOYISM
BOY'ISM, noun Childishness; puerility.1. The state of a boy.
BOYS-PLAY
BOYS-PLAY, noun Childish amusement; any thing trifling.
BOYUNA
BOYU'NA, noun A large serpent of America, black and slender, having an intolerable smell. Also, a harmless reptile.
BP
BP. An abbreviation of Bishop.
BRABANTINE
BRABANT'INE, adjective Pertaining to Brabant, a province of the Netherlands, of which Brussels is the capital.
BRABBLE
BRAB'BLE, noun A broil; a clamorous contest; a wrangle.BRAB'BLE, verb intransitive To clamor; to contest noisily.
BRABBLER
BRAB'BLER, noun A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler.
BRABBLING
BRAB'BLING, participle present tense Clamoring; wrangling.
BRACE
BRACE, noun [Latin brachium; Gr. the arm.]1. In architecture, a piece of timber framed in with bevel joints, to keep the building from swerving either way. It extends like an ar...
BRACED
BRA'CED, participle passive Furnished with braces; drawn close and tight; made tense.
BRACELET
BRA'CELET, noun1. An ornament for the wrist, worn by ladies. This ornament seems anciently to have been worn by men as well as women.2. A piece of defensive armor for the arm.
BRACER
BRA'CER, noun That which braces, binds or makes firm; a band or bandage; also, armor for the arm.1. An astringent medicine, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body.
BRACH
BRACH, noun A bitch of the hound kind.
BRACHIAL
BRACH'IAL, adjective [Latin brachium, form the Celtic braic, brac, the arm.]Belonging to the arm; as the brachial artery.
BRACHIATE
BRACH'IATE, adjective [See Brachial.] In botany, having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next.
BRACHMAN
BRACH'MANBRACHYG'RAPHER, noun [See the next word.] A writer in short hand.
BRACHYGRAPHER
BRACHYG'RAPHER, n. [See the next word.] A writer in short hand.
BRACHYGRAPHY
BRACHYG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. short, and a writing.] The art or practice of writing in shorthand; stenography.
BRACHYLOGY
BRACHYL'OGY, noun [Gr. short, and expression.] In rhetoric, the expressing of any thing in the most concise manner.