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BORE, v.t. [L. foro and perforo, to bore, to perforate; Gr. to pierce or transfix; also, to pass over, in which sense it coincides with ferry; L. veru, from thrusting or piercing, coincide in elements with this root.

1. To perforate or penetrate a solid body and make a round hole by turning an auger, gimlet, or other instrument. Hence, to make hollow;; to form a round hole; as,to bore a cannon.

2. To eat out or make a hollow by gnawing or corroding, as a worm.

3. To penetrate or break through by turning or labor; as, to bore through a crowd.

BORE, v.i. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that turns; as, this timber does not bore well or is hard to bore.

1. To pierce or enter by boring; as, an auger bores well.

2. To push forward toward a certain point.

Boring to the west.

3. With horsemen, a horse bores, when he carries his nose to the ground.

4. In a transitive or intransitive sense, to pierce the earth with scooping irons, which, when drawn out, bring with them samples of the different stratums, through which they pass. This is a method of discovering veins of ore and coal without opening a mine.

BORE, n. The hole made by boring. Hence, the cavity or hollow of a gun, cannon, pistol or other fire-arm; the caliber; whether formed by boring or not.

1. Any instrument for making holes by boring or turning, as an auger, gimlet or wimble.

BORE, n. A tide, swelling above another tide.

A sudden influx of the tide into a river or narrow strait.

BORE, pret. of bear. [See Bear.]




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BORE, v.t. [L. foro and perforo, to bore, to perforate; Gr. to pierce or transfix; also, to pass over, in which sense it coincides with ferry; L. veru, from thrusting or piercing, coincide in elements with this root.

1. To perforate or penetrate a solid body and make a round hole by turning an auger, gimlet, or other instrument. Hence, to make hollow;; to form a round hole; as,to bore a cannon.

2. To eat out or make a hollow by gnawing or corroding, as a worm.

3. To penetrate or break through by turning or labor; as, to bore through a crowd.

BORE, v.i. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that turns; as, this timber does not bore well or is hard to bore.

1. To pierce or enter by boring; as, an auger bores well.

2. To push forward toward a certain point.

Boring to the west.

3. With horsemen, a horse bores, when he carries his nose to the ground.

4. In a transitive or intransitive sense, to pierce the earth with scooping irons, which, when drawn out, bring with them samples of the different stratums, through which they pass. This is a method of discovering veins of ore and coal without opening a mine.

BORE, n. The hole made by boring. Hence, the cavity or hollow of a gun, cannon, pistol or other fire-arm; the caliber; whether formed by boring or not.

1. Any instrument for making holes by boring or turning, as an auger, gimlet or wimble.

BORE, n. A tide, swelling above another tide.

A sudden influx of the tide into a river or narrow strait.

BORE, pret. of bear. [See Bear.]


BORE, pret.

of Bear. [See Bear.]


BORE, n.

  1. The hole made by boring. Hence, the cavity or hollow of a gun, cannon, pistol or other fire-arm; the caliber, whether formed by boring or not.
  2. Any instrument for making holes by boring or turning, as an auger, gimlet or wimble.

BORE, n.

A tide, swelling above another tide. – Burke. A sudden influx of the tide into a river or narrow strait. – Cyc.


BORE, v.i.

  1. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
  2. To pierce or enter by boring; as, an auger bores well.
  3. To push forward toward a certain point. Boring to the west. – Dryden.
  4. With horsemen, a horse bores, when he carries his nose to the ground. – Dict.
  5. In a transitive or intransitive sense, to pierce the earth with scooping irons, which, when drawn out, bring with them samples of the different stratums through which they pass. This is a method of discovering veins of ore and coal without opening a mine. – Encyc.

BORE, v.t. [Sax. borian; Sw. bora; D. booren; Ger. bohren; Dan. borer, to bore; D. boor; Ger. bohrer; Dan. borre, a borer; L. foro and perforo, to bore, to perforate; Russ. burav, a borer; Gr. πειρω, to pierce or transfix; also, to pass over, in which sense it coincides with ferry. The Celtic ber, bear, a spit, L. veru, from thrusting or piercing, coincide in elements with this root. Pers. بَيَرْه birah, a borer.]

  1. To perforate or penetrate a solid body and make a round hole by turning an auger, gimlet, or other instrument. Hence, to make hollow; to form a round hole; as, to bore a cannon.
  2. To eat out or make a hollow by gnawing or corroding, as a worm.
  3. To penetrate or break through by turning or labor; as, to bore through a crowd. – Gay.

Bore
  1. To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.

    I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored.
    Shak.

  2. To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument] to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).
  3. A hole made by boring; a perforation.
  4. A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien- tang, in China.

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  5. Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast.

    So from their own clear north in radiant streams,
    Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn.
    Thomson.

  6. To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.

    Short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood.
    T. W. Harris.

  7. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
  8. The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.

    The bores of wind instruments.
    Bacon.

    Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing.
    Shak.

  9. To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.

    "What bustling crowds I bored." Gay.
  10. To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

    They take their flight . . . boring to the west.
    Dryden.

  11. The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
  12. To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.

    He bores me with some trick.
    Shak.

    Used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
    Carlyle.

  13. To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.

    Crabb.
  14. A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
  15. To befool; to trick.

    [Obs.]

    I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned,
    Baffled and bored, it seems.
    Beau. *** Fl.

  16. Caliber; importance.

    [Obs.]

    Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
    Shak.

  17. A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.

    It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
    Hawthorne.

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Bore

BORE, verb transitive [Latin foro and perforo, to bore to perforate; Gr. to pierce or transfix; also, to pass over, in which sense it coincides with ferry; Latin veru, from thrusting or piercing, coincide in elements with this root.

1. To perforate or penetrate a solid body and make a round hole by turning an auger, gimlet, or other instrument. Hence, to make hollow; ; to form a round hole; as, to bore a cannon.

2. To eat out or make a hollow by gnawing or corroding, as a worm.

3. To penetrate or break through by turning or labor; as, to bore through a crowd.

BORE, verb intransitive To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that turns; as, this timber does not bore well or is hard to bore

1. To pierce or enter by boring; as, an auger bores well.

2. To push forward toward a certain point.

Boring to the west.

3. With horsemen, a horse bores, when he carries his nose to the ground.

4. In a transitive or intransitive sense, to pierce the earth with scooping irons, which, when drawn out, bring with them samples of the different stratums, through which they pass. This is a method of discovering veins of ore and coal without opening a mine.

BORE, noun The hole made by boring. Hence, the cavity or hollow of a gun, cannon, pistol or other fire-arm; the caliber; whether formed by boring or not.

1. Any instrument for making holes by boring or turning, as an auger, gimlet or wimble.

BORE, noun A tide, swelling above another tide.

A sudden influx of the tide into a river or narrow strait.

BORE, preterit tense of bear. [See Bear.]

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