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The blue bonnet or blue titmouse.

To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house. "The boarded hovel." Cowper.

One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.

supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay. Boarding house, a house in which boarders are kept. -- Boarding nettings (Naut.), a strong network of cords or ropes erected at the side of a ship to prevent an enemy from boarding it. -- Boarding pike (Naut.), a pike used by sailors in b…

tion from a tint or wash. -- Body of a law (Law), the main and operative part. -- Body louse (Zoöl.), a species of louse (Pediculus vestimenti), which sometimes infests the human body and clothes. See Grayback. -- Body plan (Shipbuilding), an end elevation, showing the conbour of the sides of a ship at certain point…

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.

threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. Knolles.

The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.

s, or for conformity to coertain regulations. Bonded goods, goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods, for the duties on which bonds are given at the customhouse. -- Bonded warehouse, a warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint custody of the importer, or his agent,…

One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.

A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation. Camden.

To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple. [Written also bouse, and boose.] Landor. This is better than boozing in public houses. H. R. Haweis.

One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.

A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

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

The principles of those adhering to the house of Bourbon; obstinate conservatism.

One who adheres to the house of Bourbon; a legitimist.

laceus or holosericeus), allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with brightcolored objects; the satin bird.

To carouse; to bouse; to booze. De Quincey.

A small country house. "A shooting box." Wilson. Tight boxes neatly sashed. Cowper.