ig? i* BOA 
To attack, or make the firft attempt upon a man ; [ aborder 
quelqu'un , IT.]' 
Away, 1 do befeech you botli, away ; 
I’ll board him prefently. Shahefpcarc's Hamlet. 
To lay or pave with boards.—Having thus boarded the 
whole room, the edges, where they find any irregularities, 
are planed oil. Moxon. 
To BOARD, v. n. To live in a lio.ufe where a certain 
rate is paid for eating : 
As we at fir ft did board with thee, 
Mow thou vvould’ft take our mifery. Herbert. 
To BOARD, v. a. To place as a boarder in another’s 
houfe. 
BOARD-WAGES,/ [from board and wages. ] Wages 
allowed to fervants to keep thenifelves in victuals. In 
the year 1629, king Charles’s necellities obliged him to re¬ 
trench the vail ex pence of his houlhoid, by aboliftiing the 
greateft part of the daily tables in his palace, being, till 
then, it is laid, eighty in number, for the entertainment of 
his officers and fervants ; by allowing them, in lieu of 
thofe tables, a certain annual him by the name of board- 
wages. This was probably by Sir Robert Cotton’s advice, 
who, in a fpeecli at the council table, told the king, “ that 
there was never a back-door of his palace into Weftmin- 
fter, but what coir him two thoufand pounds yearly.” 
This, we conceive, was the origin of board-w ages; which, 
in all the lifts of the houfholds of our monarchs, we fee 
to be ever lince allowed to the king's menial officers and 
fervants. Anderfon's Com. vol. ii. p. 337. 
BOARD'ER,/. A tabler ; one that eats with another 
at a fettled rate. 
BOAR D'lNG-SCHOOL, f. [from board and fchool.~\ 
A fchool where the fcholars live with the teacher. It is 
commonly 11 fed of a fchool for girls : 
A blockhead, with melodious voice, 
in boar ding-fchools can have his choice. Swift. 
BOAR-HUNTING. See Hunting. 
BOA'Ri, a town of Africa, on the Gold Coaft, where 
the Dutch had a factory, afterwards removed to Sama. 
BOAR'ISH, adj. Swinifh ; brutal; cruel: 
I would not fee thy cruel nails 
Pluck out his poor old eyes ; nor thy fierce fifter 
In his anointed tlefh (tick boarijh fangs. Skakefpeare. 
To BOAST, v. n. [bof, Welffi.] To brag ; to difplay 
one’s own worth, or adtions, in great words.—Let not him 
that putteth on his harnefs, boaf himfelf as he that putteth 
it off. Kings. —To talk oftentatioufly, with of. —For I 
know the forwardnefs of your mind, for which I boajl of you 
to them of Macedonia. 1 Cor. ix. 2.—Sometimes with in : 
They loaf in mortal things, and wond’ring tell 
Of Babel, and the works of Memphian kings. Milton. 
To exalt one’s felf.—Tims with your mouth you have 
boafed agajnft me, and multiplied your words againft me. 
Ezeh. xxxv. 13. 
To BOAST, v. a. To brag of; to difplay with often- 
tatious language ; 
Neither do the fpirits damn’d 
Lofe all their virtue, left bad man fhould boajl 
Their fpecious deeds. Milton. 
To magnify ; to exalt.—They that truft in their wealth, 
and boajl thetnfelves in the multitude of their riches. PJ'al. 
xlix. 6. 
BOAST, f. Anexpreffion ofoftentation ; a proud fpeecli. 
—Thou, that makeft thy boaf of the law, through break¬ 
ing the law diflionoureft thou God ? Romans , ii. 23.—A 
paufe of boafting ; an occafion of pride; the thing boafted : 
Not Tyro, nor Mycene, match her name, 
Nor great Alcmena, the proud boajls of fame. Pope. 
“ Great Boast fmall Roaft.” Briareus ejfe apparet, 
(.ionfit lepus , Lat. B§iagt©- fanelce t wv Gr. Grands 
BOA 
vanteurs, petits faifeurs, Fr. (Great boaflers, little doers ) 
Wei hrehlens und nichts dahinrer ; or, Grcfz prahlin aber hein 
bczahlen ; (Great boaft but no payment.) The Italians fay -. 
Gran vigna e poca uva ; (A great vineyard, but few grapes.) 
BOAST'ER, f. A bragger; a man that vaunts any 
tiling offentatioully : 
No more delays, vain boa/ler ! but begin ; 
I’ll teach you how to brag another time. Dryden. 
BOAST'FUL, adj. [from boaf and full.'] Oftentatious; 
inclined to brag: 
Boafful and rough, your firft fon is a ’fquire ; 
The next a tradefman, meek, and much a liar. Pope. 
BOAST'INGLY, adv. Oftentatioufly.—We look on it 
as a pitch of impiety, boajlingly to avow our fins. Decay of 
Piety. 
BOAT ,f [bat, Sax.] A veffel to pafs the water in. 
It is ufually diflinguifhed from other velfels, by being 
fmaller and uncovered, and commonly moved by rowing. 
A (hip of a fmall fize ; as, a paJJ'age boat, pacquet boat, ad¬ 
vice boat, fy boat. —I do not think any one nation, the Sy¬ 
rian excepted, to whom the knowledge of the ark came, 
did find out at once the device of either (hip or boat, in 
which they durfl: venture thenifelves upon the leas. Raleigh. 
The conftrudlion, machinery, and even the trim, of 
boats, are very different, according to the various purpofes 
for which they are calculated. The largeft boat belonging 
to a (hip is the long-boat, which is generally furnilhed with 
a rnafl and fails. The ba-ges are next in Ol der, which are 
longer, (lighter, and narrower : they are employed to carry 
the principal fea-officers, as admirals, and captains of (hips 
of war, and are very unfit for fea. Pinnaces exactly re- 
femble barges, only that they are fomewhat fmaller, and 
never row more than eight oars ; whereas a barge has ten. 
Thefe are for the lieutenants, &c. Cutters of a (hip are 
broader, deeper, and (horter, than the barges and pinnaces ; 
they are fitter for failing, and are commonly employed in 
carrying (lores, provifions, pafferigers, See. to and from the 
(hip. In the ftrudture of this fort of boats, the lower edge 
of every plank in the fide overlays the upper edge of the 
plank below, which is called by the ffiipwrights clinch- 
work. Yawls are fomething lefs than cutters, nearly of the 
fame form, and ufed for fimilar fervices; they are generally 
rowed with (ix oars. The above boats more particularly 
belong to men of war; for merchant-fhips feldom have 
more titan two, viz. a long-boat and yawl. Merchant- 
fhips employed in the Mediterranean find it more con¬ 
venient to ufe a lanch, which is longer, more flat-bot¬ 
tomed, and better adapted to the harbours of that fea, 
than a long-boat. A wherry is a light (harp boat, ufed in 
a river or harbour for carrying palfengers from place to 
place. Punts are a fort of oblong flat-bottomed boats, 
nearly refembling floating ftages ; they are ufed by fliip- 
wrights and caulkers, for breaming, caulking, or repair¬ 
ing, a (hip’s bottom. A mofes is a very flat broad boat, 
ufed by merchant-fhips aniongft the Caribbee-iflands, to 
bring hogfheads of fitgar off' from the fea-beach to the 
(hipping, which are anchored in the roads. A felucca is a 
firong paffage-boat ufed in the Mediterranean, from ten to 
fixteen banks of oafs. The natives of Barbary often em¬ 
ploy boats of this fort as cruifers. M. Bernieres, director 
of the bridges and caufevvays in France, conftru&ed a 
boat on fitch principles, that, on a fair trial made at the 
gate of the invalids at Paris, in Auguft, 1777, it would 
neither fink nor overfet, though filled with water. It 
does not appear that this ingenious contrivance was ever 
made known to the public. Mr. Lionel Lukin, however, 
of Long-acre, in the city of London, appears to have dif- 
covered a fimilar invention, whereby he conflrudts boats 
and fmall veffels, that will neither fink nor overfet, and 
for which he obtained a patent in 1785. The mode of 
conftrudtion is as follows : To the outfides of boats and 
veffels, of the common or any other form, are added pro¬ 
jecting gunnels, (loping from the top of the common gun- 
