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  • English Word Board Definition To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.
  • English Word Board Definition To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.
  • English Word Board Definition To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.
  • English Word Board Definition To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.
  • English Word Boardable Definition That can be boarded, as a ship.
  • English Word Boarded Definition of Board
  • English Word Boarder Definition One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
  • English Word Boarder Definition One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.
  • English Word Boarding Definition of Board
  • English Word Boarding Definition The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose.
  • English Word Boarding Definition The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.
  • English Word Boarding Definition The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay.
  • English Word Boarfish Definition A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproidae; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout.
  • English Word Boarfish Definition An Australian percoid fish (Histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish.
  • English Word Boarish Definition Swinish; brutal; cruel.
  • English Word Boas Definition of Boa
  • English Word Boast Definition To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth.
  • English Word Boast Definition To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
  • English Word Boast Definition To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
  • English Word Boast Definition To display vaingloriously.
  • English Word Boast Definition To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
  • English Word Boast Definition To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
  • English Word Boast Definition To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
  • English Word Boast Definition Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
  • English Word Boast Definition The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
  • English Word Boastance Definition Boasting.
  • English Word Boasted Definition of Boast
  • English Word Boaster Definition One who boasts; a braggart.
  • English Word Boaster Definition A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.
  • English Word Boastful Definition Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising.