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To soar or mount up. Pope.

ng roof (see Verge, n., 4), and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.

A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.

See Washboard, 3.

A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc. Gwilt.

A clapboard or feather-edged board used in weatherboarding.

The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc.

Clay intersecting a vein. Weale.

A medicinal substance obtained in the East Indian, having a fragrant smell, and a warm, bitter, aromatic taste. It is used in medicine as a stimulant.

A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. Abacus harmonicus (Mus.), an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. Crabb.

The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.

To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20.

On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.

To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage. The . . . tellers of news abused the general. Macaulay.

Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.

down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett.

A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.

The science of gliding and soaring flight.

Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. On such a full sea are we now afloat. Shak.