Bore , imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.
Bore , n. [Icel. bāra wave: cf. G. empor upwards,
OHG. bor height, burren to lift, perh. allied to AS.
beran, E. 1st bear.
√92.]
(Physical Geog.) (a) 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) 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 (bōr),
n. 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.
Bore , v. i. 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.
(Man.) To shoot out the
nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse. Crabb.
Bore (&?;), v. t. [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. bohren, L. forare, Gr. &?; to plow, Zend bar. √91.] 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. "What bustling crowds I bored."
Gay.
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.
Hear it pronounced