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ether with a hostile or a friendly purpose. Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate. Sir F. Drake.

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

To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house. "The boarded hovel." Cowper.

To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form. To box a tree, to make an incision or hole in a tree for the purpose of procuring the sap. -- To box off, to divide into tight compartments. -- To box up. (a) To put into a box in order to save; as, he had boxed up twelve score pounds. (b) To…

The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.

A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses. [U. S.]

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

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.

sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school. Thackeray.

rs are in leather. -- Half boarder, one who boards in part; specifically, a scholar at a boarding school who takes dinner only. -- Half-breadth plan (Shipbuilding), a horizontal plan of the half a vessel, divided lengthwise, showing the lines. -- Half cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the dominant. -- Half cap, a slight…

A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon. Tatler.

A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.

The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery. What livery is, we by common use in England know well enough, namely, that is, allowance of horse meat, as to keep horses at livery, the which word, I guess, is derived of livering or delivering forth their nightly…

rn. See Lantern, 2 (a) [Written also lover, loover, lovery, and luffer.] Louver boards or boarding, the sloping boards set to shed rainwater outward in openings which are to be left otherwise unfilled; as belfry windows, the openings of a louver, etc. -- Louver work, slatted work.

made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold. Match boarding (Carp.), boards fitted together with tongue and groove, or prepared to be so fitted. -- Match game, a game arranged as a test of superiority. -- Match plane (Carp.), either of the two planes used to shape the edges of b…

r stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding. Totten. Netting needle, a kind of slender shuttle used in netting. See Needle, n., 3.

A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel.

Inclined to romp; indulging in romps. A little romping girl from boarding school. W. Irving.

Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience. Boarding school, Common school, District school, Normal school, etc. See under Boarding, Common, District, etc. -- High school, a free public school nearest the rank of a college. [U.S.] -- School board, a corporation established by law…