board (bord)

[Under this form and the cognate forms in the other languages are merged two different words: (1) ME. bord, boord, borde, LG. board = Icel. bordh = OHG. MHG. bort, G. 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, boord, borde, MHG. bort, G. bord = Icel. bordh = Sw. Dan. bord ), masc. (and, by confusion with the preceding, neut.), border, brim, rim, side, esp. side of a ship. From the Teut. comes F. bord = OSp. bord a, Sp. bor do = Pg. bor do = It. bor do, 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. brede, a board, = OD. bred, D. berd, a floor, = OHG. MHG. bret, G. brett, a board, plank, = Sw. bräde = Dan. brædt, 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 thickne . The name is usually given to pieces of timber (in this and similar forms called lumber in the United States) more than 41⁄2 inches wide and le 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. IMG:content-2244.png:[blocks in formation] She gathers, tribute large, and on the board Heaps with unsparing hand. Milton, P. L., v. 343. 604 a knife- board.-7. A tablet; especially, a tablet upon which public notices are written, or In his next pithy symbol I dare not board him, for he pa es all the seven wise Masters of Greece. Milton , Apology for Smectymnuus. to which they are affixed: as, a notice- board ; a bulletin- board .-8. A table, tablet, or frame 9t. To border on; approach. on which games are played: as, a che or backgammon- board ; a bagatelle- board .-9. pl . The stage of a theater: as, to go upon the boards , to leave the boards (that is, to enter upon or leave the theatrical profe ion). Our place on the boards may be taken by better and younger mimes. Thackeray . IMG:content-2245.png:[graphic] N. and Q., 6th ser., XI. 107. 10. A kind of thick stiff paper; a sheet formed by layers of paper pasted together; pasteboard: usually employed in compounds: as, cardboard, millboard, Bristol- board. 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 with paper, in distinction from one which is covered with cloth or leather. The boards were at first made of wood, but are now made of hard-pre ed rough paper-stock and shredded rope. Often abbreviated to bds. The boards used in bookbinding are formed of the pulp obtained from refuse brown paper, old rope, straw, or other vegetable material more or le fibrous. Ure , Dict., I. 421. 12. pl. In printing, thin sheets of very hard paper-stock placed between printed sheets in a pre to remove the indentation of impre ion: distinctively called pre - boards.-13. Naut.: ( a ) The deck and interior of a ship or boat: used in the phrase on board, aboard. ( b ) The side of a ship. Now board to board the rival ve els row. Dryden. (c) The line over which a ship runs between tack and tack.-14. In mining , as generally used in England: (a) Nearly equivalent to breast, as used among Pennsylvania miners. See breast . (b) An equivalent of cleat . In Yorkshire, when the coal is worked parallel to the cleat, it is said to be worked board or bord , the more usual term elsewhere being face on when worked at right angles to the cleat, the term used is end on. - Academy board. See academy. - Binders' board. See binder .-Board and pillar, in coal - mining , a method of winning coal. See pil lar and breast , under pillar.- Board of control, directors, equalization, health, ordnance, trade, etc. See the nouns.-Board on board, board and board ( naut .), side by side. By the board, over the ship's side. From bed and board. See bed1.- London board, a variety of sized cardboard. - On board, on or in a ship or conveyance. - Police board. See police. To begin precedence at table. the boardt, to take a seat at the head of the table; take Ful ofte tyme he hadde the bord bygonne Aboven alle naciouns in Pruce. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. Т., 1. 52. To go by the board. ( a ) Naut . , said of a mast which is broken off a short distance above the deck. Hence-(b) To be completely destroyed or carried away. - To keep one's name on the boards, at Cambridge University, to remain a member of a college: in to custom there of inscribing the names of members on a board or tablet. - To make a board, to make a stretch on any tack when a ship is working to windward. - To make a good board, to get well on in a stretch to windward.To make a half board ( naut.), to luff into the wind till the headway ceases, and then to fill away on the same tack. To make a stern board, to force a ship astern by the sails. To make short boards, to tack 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 Georgics, iv. They suffer from cold and hunger in their firele 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 se ion of a tribunal is held. I wish the king would be pleased sometimes to be present 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 persons 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 a emblies. Their decisions are slower, their energy le , their responsibility more diffused. They will not have the same abilities and knowledge as an administration by single men. A. Hamilton , Works, I. 154. 6. A flat slab of wood used for some specific purpose: as, an ironing- board ; a bake- board ; [ board , n. In sense 8, pocket all the stakes. board (bord), v. after F. a border, come to, accost: see aboard2, abord1, v.] I. trans. 1. To cover with boards; inclose or close up with boards; lay or spread with boards: often with up, in, or over.-2. In leather - manuf., to rub (leather) with a pommel or graining-board, in order to give it a granular appearance, and make it supple. If after "stoning out" the leather should require soften ing, it is boarded . C. T. Davis , Leather, p. 431. 3. To place at board: as, he boarded his son with Mrs. So-and-so.-4. To furnish with food, or food and lodging, for a compensation: as, his landlady boards him at a reasonable price. He was boarded and lodged at the houses of the farmers whose children he instructed. Irving , Sketch-Book, p. 421. 5. To come up alongside of (in order to attack); fall aboard of.-6. To go on board of (a ve el). Specifically-(a) To embark. (b) To hail and enter officially, as a custom-house or other officer. (c) To enter by force, or in a hostile manner. You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make communications. 7t. To put on board; stow away. The seamen call; shall we board your trunks? Totten . Middle ton and Rowley , Changeling, i. 1. 8t. To approach; accost; make advances to. Him the Prince with gentle court did bord . Spenser, F. Q., II. ix. 2. IMG:content-2246.png:[blocks in formation] 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. in trans. 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 .] Capable of being boarded, as a ship. board-clip (bord klip), п. A spring-clasp for holding sheets of paper upon a board, desk, or printer's case.