2. Across; athwart. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor iron bands aboard
The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Alongside; as, close aboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

(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 aboard, to hug the shore. --
To lay (a ship) aboard, to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands under the table. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hogsheads of ale were set abroach. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir. “Mischiefs that I set abroach.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fox roams far abroad. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. [ 1913 Webster ]

I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad. “Another prince . . . was living abroad.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely. [ 1913 Webster ]

He went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter. Mark i. 45. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be abroad. (a) To be wide of the mark; to be at fault; as, you are all abroad in your guess. (b) To be at a loss or nonplused. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whether high towering or accoasting low. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives. [ 1913 Webster ]

They had attempted to accroach to themselves royal power. Stubbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

On such a full sea are we now afloat. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Covered with water bearing floating articles; flooded; as, the decks are afloat. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city? 2 Sam. xi. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Heb. x. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman. [ 1913 Webster ]

A nearer approach to the human type. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A access, or opportunity of drawing near. [ 1913 Webster ]

The approach to kings and principal persons. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. Movements to gain favor; advances. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. pl. (Fort.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Hort.) See Approaching. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Golf) A stroke whose object is to land the ball on the putting green. It is made with an iron club. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

8. (Aviation) that part of a flight during which an airplane descends toward the landing strip. [ PJC ]

9. (Bowling) the steps taken by a bowler just before delivering the ball toward the pins. [ PJC. ]

2. To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was an admirable poet, and thought even to have approached Homer. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mil.) To take approaches to. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A board which supports the back when one is sitting; specifically, the board athwart the after part of a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddles into the interior of the wheel. W. Nicholson. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Implores their pity, and his pain bemoans. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Deplore. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Two kinds were particularly esteemed, the Bezoar orientale of India, and the Bezoar occidentale of Peru. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bezoar antelope. See Antelope. --
Bezoar goat (Zool.), the wild goat (Capra ægagrus). --
Bezoar mineral, an old preparation of oxide of antimony. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board. especially, A large board out of doors and visible to passers-by, on which the space is rented for advertising purposes; also, the advertising displayed on such a board. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]