boar 
Wild Boar (Sus scrofa). 
In heraldry the wild boar is represented with large tusks 
and open mouth. 
II. a. Male : as, a boar squirrel. 
boar 2 t, boar 3 t. Obsolete spelling of bore 1 , 
bore 2 . 
board (bord), . [Under this form and the cog- 
nate forms in the other languages are merged 
two different words : (1) ME. bord, board, borde, 
< AS. bord, a board, plank, table, shield, = OS. 
bord = OFries. bord = D. bord = MLG. bort, 
LG. board = Icel. bordh = OHG. MHG. bort, Q. 
bord, bort = Sw. and Dan. bord = Goth, baurd 
(in fotu-baurd, 'footboard,' footstool), neut., a 
board, plank, table (in AS. also shield); (2) 
ME. bord, board, borde, < AS. lord (= OS. bord 
- D. boord = MLG. bort, LG. board = OHG. 
MHG. bort, G. bord = Icel. bordh = Sw. Dan. 
bord), masc. (and, by confusion with the pre- 
ceding, neut.), border, brim, rim, side, esp. 
side of a ship. From the Teut. comes F. bord 
= OSp. borda, Sp. bordo = Pg. bordo = It. 
bordo, side, edge, esp. in the nautical use, 
whence in E. some uses of board, n. and v., 
after the F. Hence border, etc. Connection of 
the two original words is uncertain. Another 
form of AS. bord, a plank, appears transposed 
in AS. bred, a board, flat surface, E. dial, bredf, 
a board, = OD. bred, D. berd, a floor, = OHG. 
MHG. bret, G. brett, a board, plank, = Sw. 
brdde = Dan. brcedt, board. Not connected with 
broad, as is usually supposed. Cf. Ir. Gael. 
Corn, bord = W. bord and bwrdd, a board, 
table.] 1. A piece of timber sawed thin, and 
of considerable length and breadth compared 
with the thickness. The name is usually given to 
pieces of timber (in this and similar forms called lumber precedence at table. 
board-wages 
In his next pithy symbol I dare not board him, for he 
passes all the seven wise Masters of Greece. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
9f. To border on ; approach. 
The stubborne Newre whose waters gray 
By fair Kilkenny and Kosseponte boord. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. xi. 43. 
To board out. (a) To exclude with boards or by board- 
ing, (b) To send out to board ; hire or procure the board 
of elsewhere: as, to board out a child or a horse. To 
board up. (a) To stop or close by putting up boards : as, 
to board up a road, (b) To shut in with boards : as, to 
board up a flock of chickens, (c) To case with boards : as, 
to board up a room or a house. 
II. intrans. 1. To take one's meals, or be 
supplied with both food and lodging, in the 
house of another, at a fixed price. 
We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board 
in the same house. Spectator, No. 296. 
2. Naut., to tack. 
boardable (bor'da-bl), a. [<board, v., + -able.'] 
w us UIH.IGI BI.UWU u MVP. mill HUB me uuiu u cuvereu omy Capable of being boarded, as a ship, 
with paper, in distinction from one which is covered with board-clip (bord'klip), n. A spring-clasp for 
cloth or leather. The boards were at first made of wood, holding shppts of naripr iinnn a hnnrrt rlpt m- 
but are now made of hard-pressed rough paper-stock and n la J n S stl OI paper upon a Doard, desk, or 
shredded rope. Often abbreviated to bds. printer's case. 
The boards used in bookbinding are formed of the pulp board-cutter (bord'kufer), n. A bookbinders' 
obtained from refuse brown paper, old rope straw or machine for cutting millboards for the covers 
rous. and backs of books. 
Ure, Diet., 1. 421. boarder (bor'der), n. One who boards, (a) One 
who gets his meals, or both meals and lodging, in the 
house of another for a price agreed upon. 
There's a boarder in the floor above me ; and, to my tor- 
ture, he practises music. Smollett, Humphrey Clinker. 
(b) pi. On a man-of-war, the officers and men detailed to 
attack an enemy by boarding. They are armed with cut- 
lases and pistols. 
Heading for the steamer, he formed his boarders on the 
bow. J. R. Soley, Blockade and Cruisers, p. 183. 
604 
a knife-board. 7. A tablet; especially, a tab- 
let upon which public notices are written, or 
to which they are affixed: as, a notice-&o?'d; 
a bulletin-board. 8. A table, tablet, or frame 
on which games are played: as, a chess- or 
backgammon-Sort^; a bagatelle-board. 9. pi. 
The stage of a theater: as, to go upon the 
boards, to leave the boards (that is, to enter 
upon or leave the theatrical profession). 
Our place on the boards may be taken by better and 
younger mimes. Thackeray. 
There is not never was any evidence that Lodge, who 
was a very meagre dramatist, ever trod the boards. 
N. and Q., 6th ser., XI. 107. 
10. A kind of thick stiff paper; a sheet form- 
ed by layers of paper pasted together ; paste- 
board: usually employed in compounds: as, 
c&rdboard, 'millboard, Bristol-ftoaro?. Hence 
11. In bookbinding, one of the two stiff covers 
On the sides of a book. By a book in boards is usually 
to be understood a book that has the boards covered only 
, 
other vegetable material more or less fibrous. 
12. pi. In printing, thin sheets of very hard 
paper-stock placed between printed sheets in 
a press to remove the indentation of impres- 
sion : distinctively called press-boards. 13. 
Naut. : (a) The deck and interior of a ship or 
boat : used in the phrase on board, aboard. (6) 
The side of a ship. 
Now board to board the rival vessels row. Dryden. 
(c) The line over which a ship runs between boarding (bor'ding), n. [Verbal n. of board, 
tack and tack. 14. In mining, as generally t ,.] 1. Wooden boards collectively, 
used in England: (a) Nearly equivalent to 
breast, as used among Pennsylvania miners. 
See breast, (b) An equivalent of cleat, in York- 
shire, when the coal is worked parallel to the cleat, it is 
said to be worked board or bord, the more usual term else- 
where being face on: when worked at right angles to the 
cleat, the term used is end on. Academy board. See 
ar ami breast, under pillar.- Board of control direc- 
tors, equalization, health, ordnance, trade, etc. See 
the nouns. Board on board, board and board (naut.), 
The supply of material, wood, and boarding for build- 
ing, repairing, or constructing public and sacred build- 
ings. Seebohm, Eng. Vil. Communities, p. 299. 
2. Boards put together, as in a fence or a floor. 
3. The operation of rubbing leather with a 
pommel or grainiug-board to make it granular 
Bs le ' W* ha t s b f ee y haved ' ^bed. 
. dried - 4 - The act of entering a ship, es- 
pecially by assault. 5. The practice of obtain- 
mg one's food, or both food and lodging, in the 
he United States) more than 4J inches wide and less 
than 2 inches thick. Thicker pieces of the same form 
are called planks, and narrower ones battens. When 
boards are thinner on one edge than on the other, they 
are called feather-edged boards ; and to riven pieces of 
this kind, not more than 3 feet long, used for roofing the 
name board is exclusively applied in the southern United 
States. 
But ships are but boards, sailors but men. 
Shale., M. of V., i. 3. 
2. A table, especially as being used to place 
food on. 
Fruit of all kinds . . . 
She gathers, tribute large, and on the board 
Heaps with unsparing hand. Milton, P. L., v. 343. 
Hence 3. (a) That which is served on a 
board or table ; entertainment; food; diet. 
Sometimes white lilies did their leaves afford, 
With wholesome poppy-flowers, to mend his homely board. 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Oeorgics, iv. 
They . , . suffer from cold and hunger in their flreless 
houses and at their meagre boards. 
Howells, Venetian Life, xxi. 
(b) Provision for a person's daily meals, or 
food and lodging, especially as furnished by 
agreement or for a price : applied also to the 
like provision for horses and other animals. 
Board without lodging is often distinguished either as 
day-board or table-board. 
4. A table at which a council or the session 
of a tribunal is held. 
I wish the king would be pleased sometimes to be pres- 
ent at that board ; it adds a majesty to it. Bacon. 
Better acquainted with affairs than any other who sat 
then at that board. Clarendon. 
Hence, by metonymy 5. A number of per- 
sons having the management, direction, or 
superintendence of some public or private of- 
fice or trust : as, a board of directors ; the board 
of trade ; the board of health ; a school-board. 
The honourable board of council. Shak., Hen. VIII., i. 1. 
Boards partake of a part of the inconveniences of larger 
assemblies. Their decisions are slower, their energy less 
their responsibility more diffused. They will not have the 
same abilities and knowledge as an administration by sin- 
8 le men. A. Hamilton, Works, I. 154. 
6. A flat slab of wood used for some specific 
purpose: as, an izoning-board ; a hake-board; 
Ful ofte tyme he hadde the bord bygonne 
Aboven alle naciouns in Pruce. 
To 
boarding-clerk (bor'ding-klerk), n. The em- 
ployee of a custom-house agent or shipping 
firm whose duty is to communicate with ships 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., l. 52. on their arrival in port. [Eng.] 
e board, (a) Naut., said of a mast which is boarding-house (bor'ding-hous), n. A house of 
one's name e <ni y ttie boards! afcamteWge'T'mTCrslty^ restaurant, where persons are furnished with 
to remain a member of a college : in allusion to the custom board tor a fixed price. 
there of inscribing the names of members on a board or boarding-joist (bor' ding-joist), n One of the 
tack e when a Jhrffs worS^to^iZwlnl.-ToVake a ^ 1StS in n&ked floorin g to whicn the boards are 
good board, to get well on in a stretch to windward. fastened. 
To make a half board (naut.), to luff into the wind till boardmg-macnine (bor'ding-ma-shen"), n. A 
the headway ceases, and then to fill away on the same machine for rubbing the sill-face of leather to 
tack.- To make a stern board, to force a ship astern ra i se tne grain. 
ly. To sweep the board, in 3oH7i<7, S totake C everytlifi'i"; boarding-nettings (bor'ding-nef'ingz), n. pi. 
pocket all the stakes. Nettings of small rope or wire fixed around the 
board (bord), v. [< board, n. In sense 8, bulwarks of a ship to prevent her from being 
after F. aborder, come to, accost : see aboard' 2 , boarded. See netting. 
abordl, .] I. trans. 1. To cover with boards ; boarding-officer (bor'ding-of'i-ser), n. An offi- 
inclose or close up with boards ; lay or spread cer of the custom-house who boards ships on 
with boards : often with up, in, or over. 2. In their arrival in port in order to examine their 
leather-manuf., to rub (leather) with a pommel papers and to prevent smuggling, 
or graining-board, in order to give it a granu- boarding-pike (bor'ding-plk), n. A short pike 
lar appearance, and make it supple. used in naval warfare in boarding or in repel- 
If after " stoning out " the leather should require soften- ling boarders. See Jialf-pilce. 
ing, it is boarded. C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 431. boarding-school (bor'ding-skol), n. A school 
3. To place at board : as, he boarded his son which provides board for its pupils ; a school 
with Mrs. So-and-so. 4. To furnish with food, at which the pupils are fed and lodged, 
or food and lodging, for a compensation: as, board-rack (bord'rak), n. In printing, a rack 
his landlady boards him at a reasonable price, for sliding shelves (called letter-boards) on 
He was ... boarded and lodged at the houses of the which to lay away composed type, 
farmers whose children he instructed. board-rule (bord'rol), n. A figured scale for 
Ining, Sketch-Book, p. 421. finding the number of square feet in a board, 
5. To come up alongside of (in order to at- without calculation. 
tack); fall aboard of. 6. To go on board of board-school (bord'skol), n. In Great Britain, 
(a vessel). Specifically (a) To embark. (6) To hail a school under the management of a school- 
(c) < To'eiiter'b BC force ^ * CU j tom ."j loU8e or other <B cer - board consisting (except in London) of from 5 
You board an enemy to capture her, and a i 
receive news or make communications. 
7f. To put on board ; stow away. 
The seamen call ; shall we board your trunks? 
Middleton and Rowley, Changeling, i. 1. 
8f. To approach; accost; make advances to. 
Him the Prince with gentle court did bord. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. ix. 2. 
to 15 members, elected by the rate-payers of a 
' m $Men scn o1 district; a public elementary school. 
board-wages (bord'wa"gez), n, sing, and ]>l. A 
fixed payment made to domestic servants in 
lieu of board, especially when it is necessary 
for them to live out during the temporary ab- 
sence from home of their employers. 
Not enough is left him to supply 
Board-wanes, or a footman's livery. 
Dryden. 
