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The side of a ship. "Now board to board the rival vessels row." Dryden. See On board, below.

endant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail. In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob. Dryden.

To foreshow something; to augur. Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you. Dryden.

A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody. A dry, shrewd kind of a body. W. Irving.

uous; striking the eye; in high relief. Shadows in painting . . . make the figure bolder. Dryden.

; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. Dryden.

The King, when he designed you for my guard, Resolved he would not make my bondage hard. Dryden.

e.] Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play. Dryden.

certain direction with laborious effort. They take their flight . . . boring to the west. Dryden.

be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol.

See Boatswain. [Obs.] Dryden.

r; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work. For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane. Dryden.

An abyss. [Obs.] Dryden.

ther bounces as hard as he can knock. Swift. Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. Dryden.

only bounds excess. Milton. Phlegethon . . . Whose fiery flood the burning empire bounds. Dryden.

nfines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay.

e men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures. Bounty jumper, one who, during the latter part of the Civil War, enlisted in the United States service, and deserted as soon as possible after receiving the bounty. [Collog.] -- Queen Anne's bounty (Eng. Hist.…

Drunken; sotted; boozy. In his cups the bousy poet songs. Dryden.

. Admired, adored by all circling crowd, For wheresoe'er she turned her face, they bowed. Dryden.

the pit, box, galleries, nay, stage. Dorset. The boxes and the pit are sovereign judges. Dryden.