Bore — Defs

01 v. t. 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…

imp. & p. p. Bored; p. pr. & vb. n. Boring

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 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.
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.
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.” — Shak.

“Used to come and bore me at rare intervals.” — Carlyle.
5.
To befool; to trick.[Obs.]
“I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, Baffled and bored, it seems.” — Beau. & Fl.

02 v. i. 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…

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.” — Dryden.
4.
To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.(Man.)

03 n. A hole made by boring; a perforation.

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.” — Bacon.

“Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing.” — Shak.
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.[Obs.]
“Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.” — Shak.
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.” — Hawthorne.

04 n. A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which …

1.
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.(Physical Geog.)

05 imp. imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.