Part 1232

<p><b>4.</b> <def>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>as, the <ex>Board</ex> of Admiralty; a <ex>board</ex> of trade; a <ex>board</ex> of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.</as></def>

<blockquote>Both better acquainted with affairs than any other who sat then at that <b>board</b>. <i>Clarendon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>We may judge from their letters to the <b>board</b>. <i>Porteus.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, <as>as, a molding <ex>board</ex>; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; <as>as, a chess<ex>board</ex></as>; a backgammon <ex>board</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; <as>as, to bind a book in boards</as>.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>The stage in a theater; <as>as, to go upon the <ex>boards</ex>, to enter upon the theatrical profession</as>.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <ety>[In this use originally perh. a different word meaning <ets>border</ets>, <ets>margin</ets>; cf. D. <ets>boord</ets>, G. <ets>bord</ets>, shipboard, and G. <ets>borte</ets> trimming; also F. <ets>bord</ets> (fr. G.) the side of a ship. Cf. <er>Border</er>.]</ety> <def>The border or side of anything.</def> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The side of a ship.</def> "Now <i>board</i> to <i>board</i> the rival vessels row." <i>Dryden</i>. See <cref>On board</cref>, below. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>Board</i> is much used adjectively or as the last part of a compound; as, fir <i>board</i>, clap<i>board</i>, floor <i>board</i>, ship<i>board</i>, side<i>board</i>, ironing <i>board</i>, chess<i>board</i>, card<i>board</i>, paste<i>board</i>, sea<i>board</i>; <i>board</i> measure.</note>

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

<h1>Board</h1> <Xpage=160>

<hw>Board</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Boarded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Boarding</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To cover with boards or boarding; <as>as, to board a house</as>.</def> "The <i>boarded</i> hovel."

<i>Cowper.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <ety>[Cf. <er>Board</er> to accost, and see <er>Board</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.</def>

<blockquote>You <b>board</b> an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication. <i>Totten.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To enter, as a railway car.</def> <mark>[Colloq. U. S.]</mark>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To place at board, for compensation; <as>as, to <ex>board</ex> one's horse at a livery stable</as>.</def>

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<hw>Board</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; <as>as, he <ex>boards</ex> at the hotel</as>.</def>

<blockquote>We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who <b>board</b> in the same house. <i>Spectator.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Board</h1> <Xpage=160>

<hw>Board</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>aborder</ets>. See <er>Abord</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>I will <b>board</b> her, though she chide as loud As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Boardable</h1> <Xpage=160>

<hw>Board"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That can be boarded, as a ship.</def>

<h1>Boarder</h1> <Xpage=160>

<hw>Board"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.</def>