These are the meanings of the letters ABORDO when you unscramble them.
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Board (n.)
A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.
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Board (n.)
A table to put food upon.
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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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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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Board (n.)
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.
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Board (n.)
Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.
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Board (n.)
The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
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Board (n.)
The border or side of anything.
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Board (n.)
The side of a ship.
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Board (n.)
The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.
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Board (v. t.)
To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.
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Board (n.)
To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.
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Board (n.)
To enter, as a railway car.
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Board (n.)
To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.
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Board (n.)
To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.
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Board (v. i.)
To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.
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Board (v. t.)
To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.
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Broad (superl.)
Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
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Broad (superl.)
Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
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Broad (superl.)
Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
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Broad (superl.)
Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.
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Broad (superl.)
Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
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Broad (superl.)
Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
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Broad (superl.)
Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
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Broad (superl.)
Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
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Broad (superl.)
Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
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Broad (superl.)
Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.
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Broad (n.)
The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
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Broad (n.)
The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.
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Broad (n.)
A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
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Brood (v. t.)
The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
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Brood (v. t.)
The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
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Brood (v. t.)
That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
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Brood (v. t.)
Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
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Brood (a.)
Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
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Brood (a.)
Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
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Brood (v. i.)
To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
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Brood (v. i.)
To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
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Brood (v. t.)
To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
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Brood (v. t.)
To cherish with care.
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Brood (v. t.)
To think anxiously or moodily upon.