Boy \Boy\, n. In various countries, a male servant, laborer, or slave of a native or inferior race; also, any man of such a race.

He reverted again and again to the labor difficulty, and spoke of importing boys from Capetown. --Frances Macnab.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Boy \Boy\, v. t. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Boy \Boy\, n. [Cf. D. boef, Fries. boi, boy; akin to G. bube, Icel. bofi rouge.]

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 associaton, 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)