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board not more than 4 to 7 in. broad or 3 in. thick, used for various purposes, such as for strengthening or holding together laths and other See also:

wood-See also:

WORK

work; and specially, on board See also:

SHIP

ship, a See also:

STRIP

strip of wood nailed to a See also:

mast to prevent rubbing, or fixing down a See also:

TARPAULIN, or TARPAULING (as if tarpalling, from tar, and palling, a covering, Lat. palla, a mantle)

tarpaulin over a hatchway, in. rough See also:

WEATHER (O. Eng. weder; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Du. weder, Dan. veir, Icel. ve8r, and Ger. Wetter and Gewitter, storm; the root is wa- to blow, from which is derived " wind ")

weather, to keep out See also:

WATER

water. (2) A verb (the See also:

root is found in words of several See also:

Teutonic See also:

LANGUAGES

languages meaning profit or improvement, and also in the See also:

ENGLISH

English "better" ' Mr C. A. See also:

van Ophuijsen has published (in Bijd. tot See also:

LAND

Land-, See also:

TAAL

Taal-en Volken-Kunde, 1886) an interesting collection of Battak See also:

POETRY

poetry. He describes a curious See also:

LEAF (O. Eng. leaf, cf. Dutch loof, Ger. Laub, Swed. lof, &c.; possibly to be referred to the root seen in Gr. Ma-eta, to peel, strip)

leaf See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language used by Battak lovers, in which the name of some leaf or plant is substituted for the word with which it has greatest phonetic similarity. and " See also:

BOOT

boot ") meaning to improve in See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition, especially in the See also:

case of animals by feeding; so, to feed gluttonously; the word is used figuratively of prospering at the expense of another.

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