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Boar [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Boar [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.

Boar Encyclopedia Britannica

BOAR, Wild(Sus scrofa), an important species of Suidoe, a family of Pachydermatous Mammals, and generally regarded as the original stock of our domestic breeds of swine. In size it is equal to the largest of the domestic kinds, while exceeding them all in strength of body and in ferocity of disposition. It is of a greyish-black colour, covered with short woolly hair, thickly interspersed with coarse stiff bristles, which assume the form of a mane along the spine. The canine teeth are’ largely developed, forming two pairs of prism-shaped tusks, which thus become formidable weapons. In old age those tusks in the lower jaw gradually curve inwards and upwards over the snout until they are ren ere.l useless for purposes of attack, when, according to Darwin, they become serviceable for defence in the frequent fights which take place during the rutting season At the same time, the canines of the upper jaw begin to develop outwards and upwards, and these take the place of the lower ones as offensive weapons. The wild boar is a native of the temperate regions of Europe and Asia, where it inhabits the deepest recesses of forests and marshy grounds* Vambery, in his recent journey through Central Asia, found them in enormous numbers in the extensive swamps of Turkestan. They appear to have been denize113 of British forests at least till the reign of Henry IL, after which they are not heard of till the time of Charles I., when an attempt to restock the New Forest with them failed. In the reign of William the Conqueror any one killing a wild boar was liable to have his eyes put out. After reaching maturity the boar becomes a solitary animal, unless during the breeding season, when it seeks the female, and at this time they engage in fierce contests with each other, although these, ...

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Boar Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

חזיר. The wild boar is considered as the parent stock of our domestic hog. He is smaller, but at the same time stronger and more undaunted, than the hog. In his own defence, he will turn on men or dogs; and scarcely shuns any denizen of the forests, in the haunts where he ranges. His colour is always an iron grey, inclining to black. His snout is longer than that of the common breed, and his ears are comparatively short. His tusks are very formidable, and all his habits are fierce and savage. It should seem, from the accounts of ancient authors, that the ravages of the wild boar were considered as more formidable than those of other savage animals. The conquest of the Erymanthian boar was one of the fated labours of Hercules; and the story of the Calydonian boar is one of the most beautiful in Ovid. The destructive ravages of these animals are mentioned in Psalm lxxx, 14. Dr. Pococke observed very large herds of wild boars on the side of Jordan, where it flows out of the sea of Tiberias; and saw several of them on the other side lying among the reeds by the sea. The wild boars of other countries delight in the like moist retreats. These shady marshes then, it should seem, are called in the Scripture, “woods;” for it calls these animals, “the wild boars of the woods.”

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Boar-spear [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A spear used in hunting boars.

Boar-spear [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The manege, a horse is said to boar, when he shoots out his nose, raising it as high as his ears, and tosses his nose in the wind.

Board [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A piece of timber sawed thin and of considerable length and breadth, compared with the thickness, used for building and other purposes.

2. A table. The table of our rude ancestors was a piece of board perhaps originally laid upon the knees. 'Lauti cibum capiunt; separata singulis sedes, et sua cuique mensa.'

3. Entertainment; food; diet; as, the price of board is two, five, or seven dollars a week.

4. A table at which a council or court is held; hence a council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting; as a board of directors.

5. The desk of a ship; the interior part of a ship or boat; used in the phrase, on board aboard. In this phrase however the sense is primarily the side of the ship. To go aboard is to go over the side.

6. The side of a ship.

7. Now board to board the rival vessels row.

8. To fall over board that is, over the side; the mast went by the board

9. BOARD and board side by side.

10. The line over which a ship runs between tack and tack. To make a good board is to sail in a straight line, when close hauled.

11. To make short boards, is to tack frequently.

12. A table for artificers to sit or work on.

13. A table or frame for a game; as a chess board etc.

14. A body of men constituting a quorum in session; a court, or council; as a board of trustees; a board of officers.

Board [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To receive food or diet as a lodger or without lodgings, for a compensation; as, he boards at the moderate price of two dollars a week.

Board [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To lay or spread with boards; to cover with boards.

2. To enter a ship by force in combat, which answers to storming a city or fort on land.

3. To attack; to make the first attempt upon a man. In Spenser, to accost.

4. To place at board for a compensation, as a lodger.

5. To furnish with food, or food and lodging, for a compensation; as, a man boards ten students.

Board [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.

2. A table to put food upon.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.

6. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.

7. The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.

8. The border or side of anything.

9. The side of a ship.

10. The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.

11. To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.

12. To enter, as a railway car.

13. To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.

14. To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.

Board [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.

Board [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.

2. To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.

Board-load [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The service required of a tenant to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house; also, the quantity of provision paid by a bord-man for bord-land.

Board-wages [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Wages allowed to servants to keep themselves in victuals.

Boardable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That may be boarded, as a ship.

Boardable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

That can be boarded, as a ship.

Boarded [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Covered with boards; entered by armed men, as a ship; furnished with food for a compensation.

Boarded [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Boarder [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who has food or diet and lodging in another's family for a reward.

2. One who boards a ship in action; one who is selected to board ships.

Boarder [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.

2. One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.

Boarding [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Covering with boards; entering a ship by force; furnishing or receiving board, as a lodger, for a reward.

Boarding [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose.

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 [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Boarding-school [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A school, the scholars of which board with the teacher.

Boarfish [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproidae; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout.

2. An Australian percoid fish (Histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish.

Boarish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Swinish; brutal; cruel.

Boarish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Swinish; brutal; cruel.

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Exodus 26:15

And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.

You are to construct upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

Exodus 26:16

Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Exodus 26:17

Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

Two tenons must be connected to each other for each frame. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

Exodus 26:18

And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.

Construct twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,

Exodus 26:19

And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

with forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.

Exodus 26:20

And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:

For the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, make twenty frames

Exodus 26:21

And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

and forty silver bases—two bases under each frame.

Exodus 26:22

And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.

Make six frames for the rear of the tabernacle, the west side,

Exodus 26:23

And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

and two frames for the two back corners of the tabernacle,

Exodus 26:25

And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

So there are to be eight frames and sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.

Exodus 26:26

And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

You are also to make five crossbars of acacia wood for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,

Exodus 26:27

And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.

five for those on the other side, and five for those on the rear side of the tabernacle, to the west.

Exodus 26:28

And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.

The central crossbar in the middle of the frames shall extend from one end to the other.

Exodus 26:29

And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.

Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.

Exodus 27:8

Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.

Exodus 35:11

The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,

the tabernacle with its tent and covering, its clasps and frames, its crossbars, posts, and bases;

Exodus 36:20

And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.

Next, he constructed upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

Exodus 36:21

The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.

Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Exodus 36:22

One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

Two tenons were connected to each other for each frame. He made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

Exodus 36:23

And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:

He constructed twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,