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.