adv. [ Pref. a- on, in + board. ]
To fall aboard of,
To haul the tacks aboard,
To keep the land aboard,
To lay (a ship) aboard,
prep.
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.
adv. (Naut.) Over to the starboard side; -- said of the tiller. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ 2d back, n. + board. ] [ 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 ]
n. [ F. bézoard, fr. Ar. bāzahr, bādizahr, fr. Per. pād-zahr bezoar; pād protecting + zahr poison; cf. Pg. & Sp. bezoar. ] A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Two kinds were particularly esteemed, the Bezoar orientale of India, and the Bezoar occidentale of Peru. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bezoar antelope.
Bezoar goat (Zool.),
Bezoar mineral,
a. [ Cf. F. bézoardique, bézoartique. ] Pertaining to, or compounded with, bezoar. --
prop. n. (Finance) The
n.
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
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. ]
☞ When sawed thick, as over one and a half or two inches, it is usually called a plank. [ 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 ]
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 ]
☞
The American Board,
Bed and board.
Board and board (Naut.),
Board of control,
Board rule,
Board of trade,
Board wages.
By the board,
To go by the board,
To enter on the boards,
To make a good board (Naut.),
To make short boards,
On board.
Returning board,
v. t.
You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation;
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.
n.
Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate. Sir F. Drake. [ 1913 Webster ]
Boarding house,
Boarding nettings (Naut.),
Boarding pike (Naut.),
Boarding school,
n. a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests.
n. a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company).
n.
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. Swinish; brutal; cruel. [ 1913 Webster ]
In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also
n. A contrivance consisting of a slat of wood tied to the end of a thong or string, with which the slat is whirled so as to cause an intermittent roaring noise. It is used as a toy, and among some races in certain religious rites. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. a bulletin board backstage in a theater. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. same as centerboard.
n. a dark sheet of slate used as a surface for writing on, with chalk.
n. A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers, chess, or draughts. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a board on which cheeses are served.
n. The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ The chessboard and the checkerboard are alike. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin.
n.
v. t. To cover with clapboards;
n. a device which synchronizes sound and picture while making a motion picture, consisting of boards held in front of a movie camera, which are are banged together. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. a small writing board with a clip attached at the top for holding papers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
a. [ L. coarctatus, p. p. of coarctare to press together; co- + arctare to press together, from arctus, p. p. See Arctation. ] (Zool.) Pressed together; closely connected; -- applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction. [ 1913 Webster ]
Coarctate pupa (Zool.),
n. [ L. coarctatio. ]
a.
I feel
Of what coarse metal ye are molded. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
To copy, in my coarse English, his beautiful expressions. Dryden.
a. Having a coarse grain or texture, as wood; hence, wanting in refinement. [ 1913 Webster ]