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Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.

A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.

A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein. Raymond. Chimney board, a board or screen used to close a fireplace; a fireboard. -- Chimney cap, a device to improve the draught of a chimney, by presenting an exit aperture always to leeward. -- Chimney corner, the space between the sides of th…

ants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see. A city is a town incorporated; which is, or has been, the see of a bishop; and thoug…

The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.

The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.

lanvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith.

first and last day; as, from Sunday to Sunday there are six clear days. -- Clear stuff, boards, planks, etc., free from knots.

d that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.

erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters. [Obs.]

eck, usually occupied by the captain. [Written also couch.] [Obs.] The commanders came on board and the council sat in the coach. Pepys.

A light boat. To board the cockleshell in those plunding waters. W. Black.

ter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard. [Written also coulter.]

To board together; to eat at a table in common.

A club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons.

. The conservator of the estate of an idiot. Bouvier. Conservators of the River Thames, a board of comissioners instituted by Parliament to have the conservancy of the Thames.

ld exercise a control over all the departments of the executive administration. Macaulay. Board of control. See under Board.

A cart made close with boarde; a tumbrel. [Scotch]

inguished from an associate or an honorary member; as, a corporate member of the American Board.

t. -- City council, the legislative branch of a city government, usually consisting of a board of aldermen and common council, but sometimes otherwise constituted. -- Common council. See under Common. -- Council board, Council table, the table round which a council holds consultation; also, the council itself in del…