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The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose. Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate. Sir F. Drake.

A house for sheltering boats. Half the latticed boathouse hides. Wordsworth.

That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.

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.

ose vessels; -- called also animal charcoal. It is used as a decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc., and as a black pigment. See Ivory black, under Black. -- Bone cave, a cave in which are found bones of extinct or recent animals, mingled sometimes with the works and bones of man. Am. Cyc. -- Bone…

A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.

A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers. [Obs.] [Written also boley, bolye, bouillie.] Spenser.

A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.

Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; -- said of the tarsus of some birds.

A covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout. H. Walpole.

A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and wa…

A compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an antiseptic.

A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator. [Slang, U. S.]

To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome. Without bothering about it. H. James.

The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation. [Colloq.]

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

Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

t of greensward. Like an uninstructed bowler, . . . who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it. Sir W. Scott.

To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind). Totten.

A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart. Chaucer.