*boa*

prep. 1. On board of; as, to go aboard a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Across; athwart. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor iron bands aboard
The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. “Fair and aboveboard.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands under the table. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. broad in scope or content limited, exclusive
Syn. -- all-embracing, all-inclusive, blanket(prenominal), broad, complete, global, panoptic, wide [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Aëro- + boat. ] A form of hydro-aëroplane; a flying boat. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of herbs of Mediterranean to Central Asia cultivated for their flowers.
Syn. -- genus Amberboa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. (Naut.) Over to the starboard side; -- said of the tiller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 2d back, n. + board. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A board which supports the back when one is sitting; specifically, the board athwart the after part of a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddles into the interior of the wheel. W. Nicholson. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. corrup. of vergeboard; or cf. LL. bargus a kind of gallows. ] A vergeboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Finance) The New York Stock Exchange; -- a nickname often used in financial reporting. [ PJC ]

n. 1. (Naut.) A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board. especially, A large board out of doors and visible to passers-by, on which the space is rented for advertising purposes; also, the advertising displayed on such a board. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools. In late 20th century similar boards of a green slate as well as some colored white became common; wrioting on the slate bioards may be done with chalk, but writing on the white boards is done with colored pens, such as grease pens, which leaves a trace that can be easily erased. The newer boards, usualy called chalkboards are nevertheless still sometimes referred to as blackboards. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Boas. [ L. boa a kind of water serpent. Perh. fr. bos an ox. ] 1. (Zool.) A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (Boa imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (Boa eques). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is also applied to related genera; as, the dog-headed boa (Xiphosoma caninum). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ NL. See Boa, and Constrictor. ] (Zool.) A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction. The name is also loosely applied to other large serpents which crush their prey, particularly to those of the genus Python, found in Asia and Africa. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. Heb. bnē hargem sons of thunder. -- an appellation given by Christ to two of his disciples (James and John). See Mark iii. 17. ] Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bar, bor, bore, AS. bār; akin to OHG. pēr, MHG. bēr, G. bär, boar (but not bär bear), and perh. Russ. borov' boar. ] (Zool.) The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bord, AS. bord board, shipboard; akin to bred plank, Icel. borð board, side of a ship, Goth. fōtu-baurd footstool, D. bord board, G. brett, bort. See def. 8. √92. ] 1. A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When sawed thick, as over one and a half or two inches, it is usually called a plank. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A table to put food upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term board answers to the modern table, but it was often movable, and placed on trestles. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fruit of all kinds . . .
She gathers, tribute large, and on the board
Heaps with unsparing hand. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Both better acquainted with affairs than any other who sat then at that board. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

We may judge from their letters to the board. Porteus. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. pl. The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. [ In this use originally perh. a different word meaning border, margin; cf. D. boord, G. bord, shipboard, and G. borte trimming; also F. bord (fr. G.) the side of a ship. Cf. Border. ] The border or side of anything. (Naut.) (a) The side of a ship. “Now board to board the rival vessels row.” Dryden. See On board, below. (b) The stretch which a ship makes in one tack. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Board is much used adjectively or as the last part of a compound; as, fir board, clapboard, floor board, shipboard, sideboard, ironing board, chessboard, cardboard, pasteboard, seaboard; board measure. [ 1913 Webster ]

The American Board, a shortened form of “The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions” (the foreign missionary society of the American Congregational churches). --
Bed and board. See under Bed. --
Board and board (Naut.), side by side. --
Board of control, six privy councilors formerly appointed to superintend the affairs of the British East Indies. Stormonth. --
Board rule, a figured scale for finding without calculation the number of square feet in a board. Haldeman. --
Board of trade, in England, a committee of the privy council appointed to superintend matters relating to trade. In the United States, a body of men appointed for the advancement and protection of their business interests; a chamber of commerce. --
Board wages. (a) Food and lodging supplied as compensation for services; as, to work hard, and get only board wages. (b) Money wages which are barely sufficient to buy food and lodging. (c) A separate or special allowance of wages for the procurement of food, or food and lodging. Dryden. --
By the board, over the board, or side. “The mast went by the board.” Totten. Hence (Fig.),
To go by the board, to suffer complete destruction or overthrow. --
To enter on the boards, to have one's name inscribed on a board or tablet in a college as a student. [ Cambridge, England. ] “Having been entered on the boards of Trinity college.” Hallam. --
To make a good board (Naut.), to sail in a straight line when close-hauled; to lose little to leeward. --
To make short boards, to tack frequently. --
On board. (a) On shipboard; in a ship or a boat; on board of; as, I came on board early; to be on board ship. (b) In or into a railway car or train. [ Colloq. U. S. ] --
Returning board, a board empowered to canvass and make an official statement of the votes cast at an election. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Boarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Boarding. ] 1. To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house. “The boarded hovel.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. Board to accost, and see Board, n. ] To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way. [ 1913 Webster ]

You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To enter, as a railway car. [ Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. aborder. See Abord, v. t. ] To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I will board her, though she chide as loud
As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That can be boarded, as a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Naut.) The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate. Sir F. Drake. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Boarding house, a house in which boarders are kept. --
Boarding nettings (Naut.), a strong network of cords or ropes erected at the side of a ship to prevent an enemy from boarding it. --
Boarding pike (Naut.), a pike used by sailors in boarding a vessel, or in repelling an attempt to board it. Totten. --
Boarding school, a school in which pupils receive board and lodging as well as instruction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests.
Syn. -- boarding house. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company).
Syn. -- council chamber. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the stage; as, to walk the boards, i.e. to act on stage. [ PJC ]

3. board examinations (in a profession, as in medicine); -- an informal contraction; as, to take the boards; he flunked the boards. [ PJC ]

n. a walkway made of wooden boards; usually at a seaside. The more elaborate boardwalks at shore resorts are lined with many commercial retail establishments, on the side of the walk opposite the ocean. “On the Boardwalk in Atlantic City” [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Zool.) (a) A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproidæ; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout. (b) An Australian percoid fish (Histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Swinish; brutal; cruel. [ 1913 Webster ]

In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Boasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Boasting. ] [ OE. bosten, boosten, v., bost, boost, n., noise, boasting; cf. G. bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. pösa to swell; or W. bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But these last may be from English. ] 1. To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth. [ 1913 Webster ]

By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: . . not of works, lest any man should boast. Eph. ii. 8, 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult. [ 1913 Webster ]

In God we boast all the day long. Ps. xliv. 8 [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To brag; bluster; vapor; crow; talk big. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lest bad men should boast
Their specious deeds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To display vaingloriously. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To possess or have; as, to boast a name. [ 1913 Webster ]

To boast one's self, to speak with unbecoming confidence in, and approval of, one's self; -- followed by of and the thing to which the boasting relates. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Boast not thyself of to-morrow. Prov. xxvii. 1 [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Of uncertain etymology. ] 1. (Masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Sculp.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reason and morals? and where live they most,
In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast! Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The boast of historians. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Boasting. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who boasts; a braggart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stone mason's broad-faced chisel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. [ 1913 Webster ]

When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Boastfully; with boasting. “He boastingly tells you.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Presumptuous. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without boasting or ostentation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. boot, bat, AS. bāt; akin to Icel. bātr, Sw. båt, Dan. baad, D. & G. boot. Cf. Bateau. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Different kinds of boats have different names; as, canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Boat is much used either adjectively or in combination; as, boat builder or boatbuilder; boat building or boatbuilding; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boatkeeper; boat load; boat race; boat racing; boat rowing; boat song; boatlike; boat-shaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

Advice boat. See under Advice. --
Boat hook (Naut.), an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat, raft, log, etc. Totten. --
Boat rope, a rope for fastening a boat; -- usually called a painter. --
In the same boat, in the same situation or predicament. [ Colloq. ] F. W. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Boated; p. pr. & vb. n. Boating. ] 1. To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To place in a boat; as, to boat oars. [ 1913 Webster ]

To boat the oars. See under Oar. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To go or row in a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

I boated over, ran my craft aground. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Such as can be transported in a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Navigable for boats, or small river craft. [ 1913 Webster ]

The boatable waters of the Alleghany. J. Morse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) 1. A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. Called also boat fly, boat insect, boatman, and water boatman. [ 1913 Webster ]