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v. t. [ OF. acoyer; ac-, for L. ad. See Coy. ] 1. To render quiet; to soothe. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To subdue; to tame; to daunt. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Then is your careless courage accoyed. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Avoyer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Aëro- + yacht. ] A form of hydro-aëroplane; a flying boat. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

interj. [ OE. a, interj. + hoy. ] (Naut.) A term used in hailing; as, “Ship ahoy.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. alai, OF. alei, F. aloyer, to alloy, alier to ally. See Alloy, v. t. ] 1. Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A baser metal mixed with a finer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fine silver is silver without the mixture of any baser metal. Alloy is baser metal mixed with it. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy. “Pure English without Latin alloy.” F. Harrison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Alloyed p. pr. & vb. n. Alloying. ] [ F. aloyer, OF. alier, allier, later allayer, fr. L. aligare. See Alloy, n., Ally, v. t., and cf. Allay. ] 1. To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To form a metallic compound. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gold and iron alloy with ease. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. aloyage. ] The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Any steel containing a notable quantity of some other metal alloyed with the iron, usually chromium, nickel, manganese, tungsten, or vanadium. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a boy who assists a priest at the clebration of the Holy Mass and other forms of public worship; -- also called acolyte. [ PJC ]

(Med.) A chronic contagious affection of the skin, prevalent in the tropics. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Bot.) The resiniferous tree Agathis Dammara, of the Moluccas. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Annoyed p. pr. & vb. n. Annoying. ] [ OE. anoien, anuien, OF. anoier, anuier, F. ennuyer, fr. OF. anoi, anui, enui, annoyance, vexation, F. ennui. See Annoy, n. ] To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks. [ 1913 Webster ]

Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy
Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy? Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To molest; vex; trouble; pester; embarrass; perplex; tease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. anoi, anui, OF. anoi, anui, enui, fr. L. in odio hatred (esse alicui in odio, Cic.). See Ennui, Odium, Noisome, Noy. ] A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling; as, to work annoy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Worse than Tantalus' is her annoy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. anoiance, anuiance. ] 1. The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. [ 1913 Webster ]

A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which annoys. [ 1913 Webster ]

A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair,
Any annoyance in that precious sense. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 aroused to impatience or anger; as, feeling annoyed by the constant teasing.
Syn. -- irritated, nettled, peeved, pissed, stung. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances.
Syn. -- harassed, harried, pestered [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who, or that which, annoys. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Annoying. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That annoys; molesting; vexatious. -- An*noy"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. [ OF. enuius, anoios. ] Troublesome; annoying. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. See Aroint. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Arroyos [ Sp., fr. LL. arrogium; cf. Gr. &unr_; river, stream, fr. &unr_; to flow. ] 1. A water course; a rivulet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The dry bed of a small stream. [ Western U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Baseball) A boy who holds the bats and presents the bat to a batter when the batter is going to the batter's box to bat. The batboy sometimes also keeps other team equipment. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. Bavarois Bavarian. ] A kind of cloak or surtout. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the looped bavaroy the fop embrace. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bel beautiful + accueil reception. ] A kind or favorable reception or salutation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels.
Syn. -- bellman, bellhop. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Benzoic + Gr. &unr_; wood. See -yl. ] (Chem.) A compound radical, C6H5.CO-; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds. [ Formerly written also benzule. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. large tree (Heritiera trifoliolata or Terrietia trifoliolata) of Australasia.
Syn. -- red beech, brown oak, crow's foot, stave wood, silky elm. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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 ]

n. [ Boy + -hood. ] The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy. Hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile. [ 1913 Webster ]

A boyish, odd conceit. Baillie. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a boyish manner; like a boy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The manners or behavior of a boy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Boyhood. [ Obs. ] T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The nature of a boy; childishness. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

See under Law. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. same as boyish.
Syn. -- boyish, schoolboyish. [ WordNet 1.5 ]