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r some part of it, in mud charged with medicinal agents, as a remedy for disease. -- Mud boat, a large flatboat used in deredging. -- Mud cat. See Catfish. -- Mud crab (Zoöl.), any one of several American marine crabs of the genus Panopeus. -- Mud dab (Zoöl.), the winter flounder. See Flounder, and Dab. -- Mud dau…

A cushion for terminating or softening a note made by a stringed instrument with a keyboard.

A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece. [Obs.]

An extensive group of rodents which includes the rats, mice, jerboas, and many allied forms.

A small boat. [Obs.]

To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams. He is now dead, and nailed in his chest. Chaucer.

little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem. Hath passed in safety through the narrow seas. Shak.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a boat or ship.

r stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding. Totten. Netting needle, a kind of slender shuttle used in netting. See Needle, n., 3.

That part of the treadboard of a stair which projects over the riser; hence, any like projection, as the projecting edge of a molding.

An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.

Furnished with oars; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a four- oared boat.

The notch, fork, or other device on the gunwale of a boat, in which the oar rests in rowing. See Rowlock.

Denoting reference to a thing; about; concerning; relating to; as, to boast of one's achievements. Knew you of this fair work Shak.

A long, broad boat used by the Eskimos.

A student of Eton College, England, who is not a King's scholar, and who boards in a private family.

, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute. Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month. 1 Kings xii. 32. And doth the power that man adores ordain Their doom Byron.

To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous; pretentious; boastful. Far from being ostentatious of the good you do. Dryden. The ostentatious professions of many years. Macaulay. -- Os`ten*ta"tious*ly, adv. -- Os`ten*ta"tious*ness, n.

One fond of display; a boaster. Sherwood.