Haut'boy, n.

(hō'boy), n. [Fr. hautbois, i. e., high wood, haut, high, and bois, wood, on account of the high tone of the instrument; It. oboè.]

1. A wind instrument of music, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape and tone to the clarionet, only thinner. Now more commonly called by the Italian name oboe.
2. (Bot.) A sort of strawberry; the Fragaria elatior. London.