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The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.

Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased. "Defunct organs." Shak. The boar, defunct, lay tripped up, near. Byron.

The office of a deacon; deaconship; also, a body or board of deacons.

A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano.

points for drawing the spiral curve of the volute. Gwilt. -- Diminishing rule (Arch.), a board cut with a concave edge, for fixing the entasis and curvature of a shaft. -- Diminishing stile (Arch.), a stile which is narrower in one part than in another, as in many glazed doors.

The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.

A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.

To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops.

To dismiss from service on board ship. [Obs.] Hakluyt.

Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak.

The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (or thoro), "from bed board."

The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened. At last he came unto an iron door That fast was locked. Spenser.

sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school. Thackeray.

A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other. [Local, U. S.]

pl. Etym: [Cf. Pr. doblier, dobler draughtboard.]

A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box.

A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils. The pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Longfellow.

A curved member instead of an abrupt change of direction, as in a baseboard, hand rail, etc.

To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board. He did eat continually at the king's table. 2 Sam. ix. 13.

Eyelids or eyelashes. And closing eaves of wearied eyes. Tennyson. Eaves board (Arch.), an arris fillet, or a thick board with a feather edge, nailed across the rafters at the eaves of a building, to raise the lower course of slates a little, or to receive the lowest course of tiles; -- called also eaves catch and eave…