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A projecting support for a rowlock, extended from the side of a boat.

outside estimate. [Colloq.] Outside finish (Arch.), a term for the minor parts, as corner boards, hanging stiles, etc., required to complete the exterior of a wooden building; -- rare in masonry.

From one side to another; from side to side; across; crosswise; as, a board, or a tree, a foot over, i. e., a foot in diameter.

To crow, exult, or boast, over; to overpower. Spenser. Shak.

To drive on rashly; to go to excess; hence, to exaggerate; to boast. [Obs.] Barrow.

A game adopted from the Indian game, using disks, as of pasteboard, and dice. [U. S. & Eng.]

veying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, or vessel. See Packet, n., 2. -- Packet day, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day. -- Packet note or post. See under Paper.

feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc. As the men were paddling for their lives. L'Estrange. While paddling ducks the standing lake desire. Gay.

To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc. Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30.

A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten.

A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments. [Written also pallet.]

f placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves. [Obs.] Chaucer. Paling board, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards. [Eng.]

A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.

A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. Knight.

A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers. [Written also panshway and paunchwas.] Malcom.

A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame; as, the panel of a door.

A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like. Brande & C.

particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail. He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin. Atterbury.

A part; a division. [Obs.] Chaucer. Pass boat (Naut.), a punt, or similar boat. -- Pass book. (a) A book in which a trader enters articles bought on credit, and then passes or sends it to the purchaser. (b) See Bank book. -- Pass box (Mil.), a wooden or metallic box, used to carry cartridges from the service magazine…

versed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats. His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel. Shak.