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Inflated; boastful.

A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. [Eng.] Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic.

t and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.

A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging.

A young boar of the second year.

Collog.] (b) (Naut.) To hold the oars steady in the water, thus checking the headway of a boat.

ce; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere. Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. Ex. xxvii. 8..

ing, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.

A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland.

their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer. "He teaches boys the hornbook." Shak.

und, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc. Hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs. Shak.

A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman. [Written also hoveller.] [Prov. Eng.] G. P. R. James.

To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.

An aëroplane with a boatlike or other understructure that enables it to travel on, or to rise from the surface of, a body of water by its own motive power.

A plane, or any of a number of planes, projecting from the hull of a submarine boat, which by being elevated or depressed cause the boat, when going ahead, to sink or rise, after the manner of an aëroplane.

ness of the horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not yet in sight. -- Ice boat. (a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on ice by sails; an ice yacht. (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice. -- Ice box or chest, a box for holding ice; a box in which things are kept co…

One who has constant day duties on board ship, and keeps no regular watch. Totten.

A modern term applied to animals (as a boar) when borne as raging, or with furious aspect.

thickness; -- used in composition; as, a two-inch cable; a four- inch plank. Inch stuff, boards, etc., sawed one inch thick.