Definition of board

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Board (n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc..

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Chess :: Chess (n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns..
Feather-edged/ :: Feather-edged/ (a.) Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable..
Seesaw :: Seesaw (n.) A plank or board adjusted for this play.
Board :: Board (n.) Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards..
Underlay :: Underlay (n.) A thickness of paper, pasteboard, or the like, placed under a cut, or stereotype plate, or under type, in the from, to bring it, or any part of it, to the proper height; also, something placed back of a part of the tympan, so as to secure the right impression..
Sark :: Sark (v. t.) To cover with sarking, or thin boards..
Slush :: Slush (n.) The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard..
Boarded :: Boarded (imp. & p. p.) of Boar.
Double-ripper :: Double-ripper (n.) A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other..
Garboard :: Garboard (n.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake..
Boarding :: Boarding (n.) The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards..
Wasteboard :: Wasteboard (n.) See Washboard, 3..
Board :: Board (v. t.) To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo..
Tally :: Tally (n.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard..
Spread :: Sprayboard (n.) See Dashboard, n., 2 (b)..
City :: City (n.) A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see..
Directory :: Directory (n.) A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic..
Resaw :: Resaw (v. t.) To saw again; specifically, to saw a balk, or a timber, which has already been squared, into dimension lumber, as joists, boards, etc..
Shide :: Shide (n.) A thin board; a billet of wood; a splinter.
Board :: Board (n.) Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board..
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