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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.

A salt of pyroarsenic acid.

Pertaining to or designating, an acid of arsenic analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.

To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast. Roaring bulls he would him make to tame. Spenser.

One who, or that which, roars. Specifically:

loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. See Roar, v. i., 5.

The middle latitudes of the southern hemisphere. So called from the boisterous and prevailing westerly winds, which are especially strong in the South Indian Ocean up to 50º S.

In a roaring manner.

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.

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

A prop. See 3d Shore.

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.

tments 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.