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• boards

  noun

  a piece of wood sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness.

  a flat slab of wood or other material for some specific purpose: a cutting board.

  verb (used with object)

  to cover or close with boards (often followed by up or over): to board up a house; to board over a well.

  to furnish with meals, or with meals and lodging, especially for pay: They boarded him for $50 a week.

  verb (used without object)

  to take one's meals, or be supplied with food and lodging at a fixed price: Several of us board at the same rooming house.

  Ice Hockey. to hit an opposing player with a board check.

• sacrifices

  noun

  the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.

  the person, animal, or thing so offered.

  verb (used with object), sac·ri·ficed, sac·ri·fic·ing.

  to make a sacrifice or offering of.

  to surrender or give up, or permit injury or disadvantage to, for the sake of something else.

  verb (used without object), sac·ri·ficed, sac·ri·fic·ing.

  Baseball. to make a sacrifice: He sacrificed with two on and none out.

  to offer or make a sacrifice.

• tameness

  adjective, tam·er, tam·est.

  changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear.

  without the savageness or fear of humans normal in wild animals; gentle, fearless, or without shyness, as if domesticated: That lion acts as tame as a house cat.

  tractable, docile, or submissive, as a person or the disposition.

  verb (used with object), tamed, tam·ing.

  to make tame; domesticate; make tractable.

  to deprive of courage, ardor, or zest.

  verb (used without object), tamed, tam·ing.

  to become tame.

• scurrying

  verb (used without object), scur·ried, scur·ry·ing.

  to go or move quickly or in haste.

  verb (used with object), scur·ried, scur·ry·ing.

  to send hurrying along.

  noun, plural scur·ries.

  a scurrying rush: the scurry of little feet on the stairs.

  a short run or race.

• oversee

  verb (used with object), o·ver·saw, o·ver·seen, o·ver·see·ing.

  to direct (work or workers); supervise; manage: He was hired to oversee the construction crews.

  to see or observe secretly or unintentionally: We happened to oversee the burglar leaving the premises. He was overseen stealing the letters.

  to survey or watch, as from a higher position.

  to look over; examine; inspect.

• forewent

  verb

  simple past tense of forego¹.

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