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▪ I. abord, v. arch.|əˈbɔəd| Also 6–7 aboard, abord(e, abourd, abboord. [a. Fr. aborde-r to come to the side of, approach, land, f. à bord to the side of; see aboard adv. Cf. accost v.] †1. To approach, come close to; to enter, land on, gain a footing upon. Obs.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxvi. 20 And the royall shyppe, yclipped Perfitenes, They dyd aborde. 1530Palsgr. 415 I aborde: as one shyppe doth another, Jaborde. I aborde a shyppe, Je aborde. 1589P. Ive Fortif. 5 That an enemie may bee the more troubled to abourd the Fort. Ibid. 38 Approched, aborded, and surprised. 1611Cotgr., Confiner, to abboord, adioyn, lye neere vnto. 1691Ray Wisd. God (1714) 201 The first Spaniards that aborded America. 2. To accost. Obs. or arch.
1611Cotgr., Aborder, to approach, accoast, abboord. a1628F. Greville Life of Sidney 74 (1652) To abbord, either with question, familiarity, or scorn. 1841Thackeray Professor ii. 176 He..aborded the two ladies with easy eloquence. ▪ II. † aˈbord, n. Obs. Also aboard. [a. Fr. abord approach; f. aborde-r: see prec.] 1. The act of approaching; approach; manner of approach. Cf. Fr. au premier abord.
1611Cotgr., Arrivée, an arriuall, accesse, abboord, or comming to. 1645Digby Nat. Bodies 253 (L.) He [a blind man] would at the first aboard of a stranger..frame a right apprehension of his stature. 1655Jennings Elise 116 This, at first aboard, astonish'd Cyrilla. 1774Chesterfield Let. 186 (R.) Whether your first abord made that advantageous impression. 1854P. G. Patmore Friends & Acq. III. xviii. 100 Such were the impressions produced on me by the first abord of John Hunt, as I saw him within his prison walls. 1884Edin. Rev. Oct. 557 Her granddaughter has a vivid recollection of Mrs. Merivale in her later days, with a slightly formal and old-fashioned ‘abord’. 2. Way of approach.
1670R. Lassels Voy. Italy I. 82 I never saw a more stately abord to any Citty then to this [Genoa]. ▪ III. abord obs. form of aboard adv. |