4. To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.
5. To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.
Board (&?;), v. i. To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.
We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house.
Spectator.
Board, v. t. [F. aborder. See Abord, v. t.] To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo. [Obs.]
I will board her, though she chide as loud
As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.
Shak.
Board"a*ble (&?;), a. That can be boarded, as a ship.
Board"er (&?;), n. 1. One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.