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 Lad n.
 1. A boy; a youth; a stripling. “Cupid is a knavish lad.”
    There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves and two small fishes.   --John vi. 9.
 2. A companion; a comrade; a mate.
 Lad's love. Bot. See Boy's love, under Boy.
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 Boy n.
 1. 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.
 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.
 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.

 lad's love
      n : aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a
          bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe [syn: common
          wormwood, absinthe, old man, Artemisia absinthium]