adv. [ Pref. a- on, in + board. ] 1. On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Alongside; as, close aboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Naut.):
To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. --
To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. --
To keep the land aboard, to hug the shore. --
To lay (a ship) aboard, to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. 1. On board of; as, to go aboard a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Across; athwart. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. 1. broad in scope or content limited, exclusive
Syn. -- all-embracing, all-inclusive, blanket(prenominal), broad, complete, global, panoptic, wide [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. (Naut.) Over to the starboard side; -- said of the tiller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 2d back, n. + board. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A board which supports the back when one is sitting; specifically, the board athwart the after part of a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddles into the interior of the wheel. W. Nicholson. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure. Thackeray. [ 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 ]

prop. n. (Finance) The New York Stock Exchange; -- a nickname often used in financial reporting. [ PJC ]

n. 1. (Naut.) A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board. especially, A large board out of doors and visible to passers-by, on which the space is rented for advertising purposes; also, the advertising displayed on such a board. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

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 chalkboards are nevertheless still sometimes referred to as blackboards. [ 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. ] 1. A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When sawed thick, as over one and a half or two inches, it is usually called a plank. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A table to put food upon. [ 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 ]

3. Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. 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. [ 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 ]

5. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. pl. The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. [ In this use originally perh. a different word meaning border, margin; cf. D. boord, G. bord, shipboard, and G. borte trimming; also F. bord (fr. G.) the side of a ship. Cf. Border. ] The border or side of anything. (Naut.) (a) The side of a ship. “Now board to board the rival vessels row.” Dryden. See On board, below. (b) The stretch which a ship makes in one tack. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Board is much used adjectively or as the last part of a compound; as, fir board, clapboard, floor board, shipboard, sideboard, ironing board, chessboard, cardboard, pasteboard, seaboard; board measure. [ 1913 Webster ]

The American Board, a shortened form of “The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions” (the foreign missionary society of the American Congregational churches). --
Bed and board. See under Bed. --
Board and board (Naut.), side by side. --
Board of control, six privy councilors formerly appointed to superintend the affairs of the British East Indies. Stormonth. --
Board rule, a figured scale for finding without calculation the number of square feet in a board. Haldeman. --
Board of trade, 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. --
Board wages. (a) Food and lodging supplied as compensation for services; as, to work hard, and get only board wages. (b) Money wages which are barely sufficient to buy food and lodging. (c) A separate or special allowance of wages for the procurement of food, or food and lodging. Dryden. --
By the board, over the board, or side. “The mast went by the board.” Totten. Hence (Fig.),
To go by the board, to suffer complete destruction or overthrow. --
To enter on the boards, to have one's name inscribed on a board or tablet in a college as a student. [ Cambridge, England. ] “Having been entered on the boards of Trinity college.” Hallam. --
To make a good board (Naut.), to sail in a straight line when close-hauled; to lose little to leeward. --
To make short boards, to tack frequently. --
On board. (a) On shipboard; in a ship or a boat; on board of; as, I came on board early; to be on board ship. (b) In or into a railway car or train. [ Colloq. U. S. ] --
Returning board, a board empowered to canvass and make an official statement of the votes cast at an election. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Boarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Boarding. ] 1. To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house. “The boarded hovel.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. Board to accost, and see Board, n. ] To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way. [ 1913 Webster ]

You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To enter, as a railway car. [ Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. 1. One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Naut.) The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate. Sir F. Drake. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Boarding house, a house in which boarders are kept. --
Boarding nettings (Naut.), a strong network of cords or ropes erected at the side of a ship to prevent an enemy from boarding it. --
Boarding pike (Naut.), a pike used by sailors in boarding a vessel, or in repelling an attempt to board it. Totten. --
Boarding school, a school in which pupils receive board and lodging as well as instruction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests.
Syn. -- boarding house. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company).
Syn. -- council chamber. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the stage; as, to walk the boards, i.e. to act on stage. [ PJC ]

3. board examinations (in a profession, as in medicine); -- an informal contraction; as, to take the boards; he flunked the boards. [ PJC ]

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. 1. (Arch.) A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A board or plank used as a bridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 buck wagon. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. (Naut.) A retractable or sliding keel used on sailboats, formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent drifting to leeward when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States
Syn. -- centreboard, drop keel, sliding keel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as centerboard.
Syn. -- centerboard, drop keel, sliding keel. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a dark sheet of slate used as a surface for writing on, with chalk.
Syn. -- blackboard. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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.
Syn. -- cheese tray. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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.
Syn. -- hardboard. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stave for a cask. [ Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house. [ U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

n. A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cup + board. ] 1. A board or shelf for cups and dishes. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cupboard love, interested love, or that which has an eye to the cupboard. “A cupboard love is seldom true.” Poor Robin. [ Colloq. ] --
To cry cupboard, to call for food; to express hunger. [ Colloq. ] “My stomach cries cupboard.” W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a circular board of wood or cork used as the target in the game of darts. It may have any of several patterns on it, such as concentric circles, or a central circle with rays. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. 1. A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) (a) The float of a paddle wheel. (b) A screen at the bow af a steam launch to keep off the spray; -- called also sprayboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. an instrument panel beneath the front window of a motor vehicle (such as an automobile or truck), containing indicating gauges and dials, such as the speedometer and fuel gauges, and sometimes certain control knobs or other devices. [ PJC ]

n. a schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a board beside a kitchen sink having a surface inclined so as to drain into the sink.
Syn. -- draining board. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A checkered board on which draughts are played. See Checkerboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Agric.) The part of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The base of a window casing, on which the elbows may rest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a type of wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets, calle also particle board.
Syn. -- fibreboard, particle board. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as fiberboard. [ mostly British usage ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger.
Syn. -- fingerpost. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a bank of keys on a musical instrument.
Syn. -- piano keyboard, clavier. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]