BPage 293
- English Word Board Definition 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.
- English Word Board Definition 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.
- English Word Board Definition Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.
- English Word Board Definition The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
- English Word Board Definition The border or side of anything.
- English Word Board Definition The side of a ship.
- English Word Board Definition The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.
- English Word Board Definition To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.
- English Word Board Definition To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.
- English Word Board Definition To enter, as a railway car.
- English Word Board Definition To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.
- English Word Board Definition To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.
- English Word Board Definition To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.
- English Word Board Definition To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.
- English Word Boardable Definition That can be boarded, as a ship.
- English Word Boarded Definition of Board
- English Word Boarder Definition One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
- English Word Boarder Definition One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.
- English Word Boarding Definition of Board
- English Word Boarding Definition The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose.