Chapter Bluff Harry to Boaz of B by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

filled the sacred place,
And mountains levelled in his furious race.”
Part i. 43-6.

   The wild boar of Ardennes [Le sanglier des Ardennes]. Guillaume, Comte de la Marck, so called because he was fierce as the wild boar, which he delighted to hunt. Introduced by Sir Walter Scott as William, Count of la Marck, in Quentin Durward.

Boar (The), eaten every evening in Valhalla by the Æsir, was named SAEHRIMNIR. It was eaten every evening and next morning was restored whole again.

Boar's Flesh Buddha died from a meal of dried boar's flesh. Mr. Sinnett;
tells us that the “boar” referred to was the boar avatar of Vishnu, and that “dried boar's flesh” means esoteric knowledge prepared for popular use. None but Buddha himself must take the responsibility of giving out occult secrets, and he died while so occupied, i.e. in preparing for the general esoteric knowledge. The protreptics of Jamblicus are examples of similar interpretations. (See Nineteenth Century, June, 1893, p. 1021.)

Boar's Head [The Christmas dish.] Freyr, the Scandinavian god of peace and plenty, used to ride on the boar Gullinbursti; his festival was held at Yuletide (winter solstice), when a boar was sacrificed to his honour.
   The Boar's Head. This tavern, made immortal by Shakespeare, used to stand in Eastcheap, on the site of the present statue of William IV. It was the cognisance of the Gordons, the progenitor of which clan slew, in the forest of Huntley, a wild boar, the terror of all the Merse (1093).

Board A council which sits at a board or table; as “Board of Directors,” “Board of Guardians,” “School Board,” “Board of Trade,” etc. (Anglo-Saxon, bord, a board, table, etc.)
   To sweep the board. To win and carry off all the stakes in a game of cards.
   2. Board, in sea phrases, is all that space of the sea which a ship passes over in tacking.
   On board. In the ship. “To go on board,” to enter the ship or other sea vessel.
   Overboard. Fallen out of the ship into the sea.
   To board a ship is to get on board an enemy's vessel.
   To make a good board. To make a good or long tack in beating to windward.
   To make a short board. To make a short tack. “To make short boards,” to tack frequently.
   To make a stern board. To sail stern foremost.
   To run aboard of. To run foul of [another ship].
   3. To board. To feed and lodge together, is taken from the custom of the university members, etc., dining together at a common table or board.

Board To accost. (French, aborder, to accost.)

“I'll board her, though she chide as loud
As thunder.”
Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, i. 2.

(See also Hamlet, ii. 2.)

Board of Green Cloth So called because the lord steward and his board sat at a table covered with green cloth. It existed certainly in the reign of Henry I., and probably earlier, and was abolished in 1849.

“Board of Green Cloth, June 12th, 1681. Order was this day given that the Maides of Honour should have cherry-tarts instead of gooseberrytarts, it being observed that cherrys are three-pence a pound.”

Board School (A) An undenominational elementary school managed by a School Board, and supported by a parliamentary grant collected by a rate.

Boarding School I am going to boarding school. Going to prison to be taught good behaviour.

Boards He is on the boards, i.e. an actor by profession.

Boast (The). The vainglory, the ostentation, that which a person boasts of, or is proud of.

“The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
Awaits [sic] alike the inevitable hour.”
Gray: The Elegy, stanza 9.

Boast of England (The). Tom Thumb or Tom-a-lin. Richard Johnson, in 1599, published a “history of this ever-renowned soldier, the Red Rose Knight, surnamed The Boast of England, showing his honorable victories in foreign countries, with his strange fortunes in Faëry Land, and how he married the fair Angliterra, daughter of Prester John. ...”