Word Meanings - BOARDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose. Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate. Sir F. Drake. 2. The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering
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The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose. Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate. Sir F. Drake. 2. The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards. 3. The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay. Boarding house, a house in which boarders are kept. -- Boarding nettings , a strong network of cords or ropes erected at the side of a ship to prevent an enemy from boarding it. -- Boarding pike , a pike used by sailors in boarding a vessel, or in repelling an attempt to board it. Totten. -- Boarding school, a school in which pupils receive board and lodging as well as instruction.
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- ENTERPARLANCE
Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward. - ENTERPRISER
One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward. - ENTERDEAL
Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - DRAKE
The drake fly. The drake will mount steeple height into the air. Walton. Drake fly, a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling. The dark drake fly, good in August. Walton. (more info) enterich, Icel. andriki, Dan. andrik, OSw. andrak, andrage, masc., - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - ENTERPRISE
1. That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. Shak. - ENTEROLITH
An intestinal concretion. - ENTERPLEAD
See INTERPLEAD - COLLECTIVELY
In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly. - PURPOSE
1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer. - ATTEMPTER
1. One who attempts; one who essays anything. 2. An assailant; also, a temper. - ENTERTAINER
One who entertains. - ENTEROTOMY
Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia. - FRIENDLY
1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3. - COVERT BARON
Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. - HOSTILELY
In a hostile manner. - COVERTNESS
Secrecy; privacy. - MESENTERY
The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum - CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - SIDEBOARD
A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton. - WEATHERBOARDING
The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use. - SPRINGBOARD
An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising. - CHESSBOARD
The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard. Note: The chessboard and the checkerboard are alike. - REENTERING
The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored. - SKELDRAKE; SKIELDRAKE
The common European sheldrake. The oyster catcher. - ANENTEROUS
Destitute of a stomach or an intestine. Owen. - ASSENTER
One who assents. - ABOARD
On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. 2. Alongside; as, close aboard. Naut.: To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. -- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land - SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
Centering in one's self.