| Bore (bore) |
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| v. t. | ((?)) |
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| Bore |
| [imp. *** p.
p. Bored (&?]); p. pr. *** vb. n.
Boring.] [OE. borien, AS. borian] akin to Icel.
bora, Dan. bore, D. boren, OHG. por(?)n, G.
boh |
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.
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.
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.
To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to
tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
To befool; to trick.
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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).
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.
To push forward in a certain direction with
laborious effort.
To shoot out the nose or toss it
in the air; -- said of a horse.
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| Bore (bore) |
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| n. | (b r) |
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| Bore |
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A hole made by boring; a perforation.
The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun,
cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a
tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
A tool for making a hole by boring, as an
auger.
Caliber; importance.
A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or
dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes
ennui.
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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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| Bore (bore) |
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| a. | (&?]) |
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| Bore |
| [L. borealis: cf.
F. boréal. See Boreas.] |
Northern; pertaining to
the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal
blast.
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