n. [ For nachebone. For loss of n, cf. Adder. See Natch. ] The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone. [ Spelt also edgebone. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ D. bosch wood + bok buck. ] (Zool.) A kind of antelope. See Bush buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Burgh + bote. ] (Old Law) A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Bushman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bookkeeping) A book in which is kept a register of money received or paid out. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a box for holding cash.
Syn. -- money box, till. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

The seat of a coachman. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. 1. Born of the earth; terrigenous; springing originally from the earth; human; having the characteristics of earthly life; as, earth-born beings. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

Some earthborn giant. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relating to, or occasioned by, earthly objects. [ 1913 Webster ]

All earthborn cares are wrong. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a bone of a fish. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Flashboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A page; a servant. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a high diving board. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of noble or aristocratic birth. Contrasted with lowborn and common. Shak.
Syn. -- aristocratic, blue-blooded, coroneted, gentle, patrician, titled, wellborn, upper-class. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who lives high; also, in politics, a highflyer. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A kind of tall chest of drawers, with drawers up to near or above eye level and fouyr legs at the base; it is often divided into lower and upper sections, with the lower section somewhat wider than the upper; also called a tallboy. Compare lowboy. [ U. S. ] “Mahogany highboys glittering with brass handles.” K. L. Bates. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. A board that has a groove cut into one edge and a tongue cut into the other so they fit tightly together (as in a floor); see match boarding. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A small folder of paper safety matches.
Syn. -- match book. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a box for holding matches. See first match, n. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. neighebour, AS. neáhgebūr; neáh nigh + gebūr a dweller, farmer; akin to D. nabuur, G. nachbar, OHG. nāhgibūr. See Nigh, and Boor. ] [ Spelt also neighbour. ] 1. A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is near in sympathy or confidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Buckingham
No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves? Luke x. 36. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gospel allows no such term as “stranger;” makes every man my neighbor. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring. “The neighbor cities.” Jer. l. 40. “The neighbor room.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A copse that neighbors by. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Neighbored p. pr. & vb. n Neighboring. ] 1. To adjoin; to border on; to be near to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leisurely ascending hills that neighbor the shore. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To associate intimately with. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also neighbourhood. ] 1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Vicinity; vicinage; proximity. -- Neighborhood, Vicinity. Neighborhood is Anglo-Saxon, and vicinity is Latin. Vicinity does not commonly denote so close a connection as neighborhood. A neighborhood is a more immediately vicinity. The houses immediately adjoining a square are in the neighborhood of that square; those which are somewhat further removed are also in the vicinity of the square. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Living or being near; adjacent; as, the neighboring nations or countries. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being neighborly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Also written neighbourly. ] Appropriate to the relation of neighbors; having frequent or familiar intercourse; kind; civil; social; friendly. -- adv. In a neighborly manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Judge if this be neighborly dealing. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being neighbors. [ R. ] J. Bailie. [ 1913 Webster ]

Same as neighbor, neighboring, neighborhood, neighborly. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ PJC ]

adj. 1. Moving toward the north; as, northbound traffic.
Syn. -- northward. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. intended to be used by vehicles moving toward the north; -- of roads and parts of roads; as, The northbound lane was blocked by an overturned tractor-trailer. [ PJC ]

n. (Carp.) The board which receives the ends of the steps in a staircase. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Computers) A circuit board where circuits are completed and modified by making connections with patchcords.
Syn. -- switchboard, plugboard. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. (Eng. Law) Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry. See Bote. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A book of sketches or for sketches. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Gun.) Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled. -- n. A smoothbore firearm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; -- in the United States commonly called dashboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an elctrical apparatus consisting predominantly of a panel on which are switches or other means of completing electrical circuits; -- used especially for the devices used in telephone exchanges. See sense 2. [ PJC ]

2. (Telephone) An apparatus containing switches by means of which a connection may be made from an incoming telephone line to any one of numerous outgoing lines. The switches may be either mechanical or electronic, and the switching action may be automatic, controlled by signals in the incoming call, or manual, controlled by a switchboard operator. In older style manual switchboards, the circuits were connected by the use of patchcords, inserted into plugs.
Syn. -- patchboard, plugboard, telephone exchange. [ PJC ]

a. Being without neigbors. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not neighborly; distant; reserved; solitary; exclusive. -- adv. Not in a neighborly manner. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard. Mar. Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) Clay intersecting a vein. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; -- called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum. [ 1913 Webster ]