Boxwood

The wood of the box-tree. - See BuXUS. Boy, n. [Lat. puer, pupus; Dan. pog; Ger. bube.] A male child; a male beyond the period of infancy, and under that of manhood; a lad; a minor. Ahl happy years I once more who would not be a boy ?" Byron. -v.a. To act as a boy, alluding to the former practice of having boys to represent women's parts on the English stage. "And I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatne ." - Shaks. Boyaca ( bo - ya / ka ), a town of Colombia (S. A.), near which, in 1819, Bolivar, by a victory over the Spaniards, secured the independence of his country. It gives name to the department, which stretches from the plateau of Bogota to the borders of Venezuela, being watered by the Magdalen a, Sogamozo, Zulia, Cazanare, and Meta. The capital, however, is not B. itself, but the neighboring city of Tunja, which is about 70 miles to the N.N.E. of Bogota. Boyanagh, ( boy'an - agh,) a parish of Ireland, county Galway.