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A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.

A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.

A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.

The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.

A hard, highly polishable composition, made of fine sawdust from hard wood (as rosewood) mixed with blood, and pressed.

Vehement; excessive. [R.] The heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for them. Woodward.

A fragrant evergreen shrub of Chili (Peumus Boldus). The bark is used in tanning, the wood for making charcoal, the leaves in medicine, and the drupes are eaten.

An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet. [Scot.] Open the bole wi'speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin. Sir W. Scott.

An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes. Bollard timber (Naut.), a timber, also called a knighthead, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.

A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing.

nto. Next, she means to bombard Naples. Burke. His fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe. Wood.

the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the…

The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. Bailey. Mozley & W.

of the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood. T. W. Harris.

A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.

A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

A thicket; a small wood. "Through bosk and dell." Sir W. Scott.

Same as Boscage. Thridding the somber boskage of the wood. Tennyson.

Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. Milton.