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A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools.

The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.

meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.

That can be boarded, as a ship.

One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship. Totten.

ther with a hostile or a friendly purpose. Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate. Sir F. Drake.

A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproidæ; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout.

Swinish; brutal; cruel. In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs. Shak.

The oar used by the bowman.

A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened.

A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon.

end of a thong or string, with which the slat is whirled so as to cause an intermittent roaring noise. It is used as a toy, and among some races in certain religious rites.

A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.

A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the co…

A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.

The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.

A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses. [U. S.]

To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely. [Obs.] Bacon.

applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction. Coarctate pupa (Zoöl.), a pupa closely covered by the old larval skin, as in most Diptera.

Confinement to a narrow space. [Obs.] Bacon.