Bore
Bore ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Old English borien, Anglo-Saxon borian; akin to Icelandic bora, Danish bore, Dutch boren, Old High German porōn, German bohren, Latin forare, Greek {not transcribed} to plow, Zend bar. r91.]
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.
2.
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.
3.
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.
4.
To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
He bores me with some trick.
Used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
5.
To befool; to trick. [Obsolete]
I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned,
Baffled and bored, it seems.
Bore , intransitive verb
1.
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).
2.
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.
3.
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
They take their flight... boring to the west.
4.
(Man.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse. — Crabb
Bore (bōr) , noun
1.
A hole made by boring; a perforation.
2.
The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
The bores of wind instruments.
Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing.
3.
The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
4.
A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
5.
Caliber; importance. [Obsolete]
Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
6.
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.
Bore , noun
[Icelandic bāra wave: compare German empor upwards, Old High German bor height, burren to lift, perh. allied to Anglo-Saxon beran, English 1st bear. r92.]
(a)
(Physical Geography) 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.
(b)
(Physical Geography) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.
Bore , imperfect
imperfect of 1st & 2d Bear.