Vocabulary : Boxing day to Boyau

Boxing day : The first week day after Christmas, a legal holiday on which Christmas boxes are given to postmen, errand boys, employees, etc. The night of this day is boxing night.
Box-iron : A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.
Boxkeeper : An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.
Boxthorn : A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum.
Boxwood : The wood of the box (Buxus).

Boy : A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son. ;; To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage. ;; In various countries, a male servant, laborer, or slave of a native or inferior race; also, any man of such a race.
Boy scout : Orig., a member of the "Boy Scouts," an organization of boys founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to promote good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty and of usefulness to others, by stimulating their interest in wholesome mental, moral, industrial, and physical activities, etc. Hence, a member of any of the other similar organizations, which are now worldwide. In "The Boy Scouts of America" the local councils are generally under a scout commissioner, under whose supervision are scout masters, each in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts each, who are of three classes, tenderfoot, second-class scout, and first-class scout.
Boyar : Alt. of Boyard
Boyard : A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.
Boyau : A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.

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