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One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.

A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.

Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.

In churches, a kind of closet, niche, cupboard, or locker for utensils, vestments, etc.

In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.

A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

trument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.

An elephant goad with a sharp spike and hook, resembling a short-handled boat hook. [India] Kipling.

e electric lamps (white and red) is arranged vertically on a mast, and operated from a keyboard below.

e still my argument. Shak. The abstract or argument of the piece. Jeffrey. [Shields] with boastful argument portrayed. Milton.

A large flatboat used on Western American rivers to transport produce to market.

A sort of cupboard, or case, to contain bows and other implements of archery.

er; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat. Here shall I die ashore. Shak. I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Shak.

An arch, or ceiling, of boards, placed over the men's heads in a mine.

To vaunt; to boast. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A boaster. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An advice boat, or dispatch boat.

Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. [Slang]

A broad, flatbottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.

A ferryboat. See Bac, 1