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A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.

Rebellowing; resounding loudly. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

Repetition of a bellow. [R.] Bp. Patrick.

A boat designed to be propelled by oars instead of sails.

A boat propelled by a sail or sails.

f leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard.

A baseboard; a mopboard.

Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast; as, a seaboard town.

A boat or vessel adapted to the open sea; hence, a vessel considered with reference to her power of resisting a storm, or maintaining herself in a heavy sea; as, a good sea boat.

ip's side; hence, by extension, a ship; -- found chiefly in adverbial phrases; as, on shipboard; a shipboard.

A bench or board on which work is performed; a workbench. South.

The same as Shovelboard.

A board on which a game is played, by pushing or driving pieces of metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game itself. Called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny.

See Shovelboard.

rtments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.

A board, placed on or before a shop, office, etc., on which ssome notice is given, as the name of a firm, of a business, or the like.

A board sliding in grooves.

A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.

A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments.

ing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; -- in the United States commonly called dashboard.