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(Eccl. Hist.) During the Middle Ages, the custom grew up of allowing the choristers of cathedrals to choose yearly one of their number to act the part of a bishop. The practice was permitted probably from the same motives which suffered the mummeries of the "Abbot of Unreason," (a graphic account of which may be found in Sir Walter Scott's romance of The Monastery.) If the B. died within the short period of office, he was buried in his episcopal robes. A tomb with the effigy of a boy so clothed may be seen in Salisbury Cathedral, England. Boy'cott, ( Irish Hist . ) From one Captain Boycott, a land ag't, who made himself obnoxious during the Agrarian troubles in Ireland in 1880. The people refused to work for him or to countenance him, hence the term Boycott or Boycotted has since been applied to organized efforts to refuse support or patronage. shall be Boycotted . "They advise Nobody is to work for them, to sell them anything, or to buy of them." The Scotch man. Boyd, in Kentucky , a N.E. co., bordering on Ohio and West Virginia. Area , 180 sq. m. The Ohio forms its N.E. boundary, and the Big Sandy its E. Soil . Tolerably fertile. Cap . Catlettsburg. Pop . (1898) 16,100. Boyd, in Mi ouri , a post-office of Dallas co. Boydell', JOHN, a liberal patron of art, celebrated for the handsomely illustrated edition of Shakespeare, published under his patronage (1792-1801), and the magnificent "Shakespeare Gallery" of engravings by West, Reynolds, Opie and North cote, also the result of his energies. Born in England, 1719; died in 1804. Boyds'ville, in Tenne ee, a village of Weakley co., 124 m. W. by N. of Nashville. Boyds'ville, in Kentucky, a post-office of Graves co. Boyds'ville, in Mi ouri, a post-office of Call away co. Boyd'ton, in Virginia , a vill., cap. of Mecklenburg co., 6 m. N. of Roanoke river, and 90 m. S.W. of Richmond. Pop., 800. On the road from Petersburg to this place, where it cro es the creek called Hatcher's Run, an obstinate engagement took place, 27th Oct., 1864, between the Union troops, commanded by Gen. Hancock, and a force of Confederates under Gen. Heth, in which each side sustained a lo of about 1,500 men, and though the latter had gained no ground, the Nationals found it advisable to withdraw to their intrenchments at Petersburg. Boy'er, ALEXIS, BARON DE, a French surgeon, B. at Uzerche, 1757. He was surgeon to Napoleon, who made him a baron. After the Restoration he remained in the service of Louis XVIII., Charles X., and Louis Philippe. In 1825 he was admitted member of the Institute, and D. 1833. His principal works are, Traité complet d'Anatomie, and Traité des Maladies Chirurgicales .