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). [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort. [ 1913 Webster ]

They take their flight . . . boring to the west. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Man.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A hole made by boring; a perforation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bores of wind instruments. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Caliber; importance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of 1st & 2d Bear. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. borealis: cf. F. boréal. See Boreas. ] 1. Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast. [ 1913 Webster ]

So from their own clear north in radiant streams,
Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biogeography) Designating or pertaining to a terrestrial division consisting of the northern and mountainous parts of both the Old and the New World; -- equivalent to the Holarctic region exclusive of the Transition, Sonoran, and corresponding areas. The term is used by American authors and applied by them chiefly to the Nearctic subregion. The Boreal region includes approximately all of North and Central America in which the mean temperature of the hottest season does not exceed 18° C. (= 64.4° F.). Its subdivisions are the Arctic zone and
Boreal zone, the latter including the area between the Arctic and Transition zones. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ L. boreas, Gr. &unr_;. ] The north wind; -- usually a personification. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. D. boerenkool (lit.) husbandman's cabbage. ] A brassicaceous plant of many varieties, cultivated for its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. tired of the world; bored with life.
Syn. -- world-weary. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence. Opposite of interested.
Syn. -- blase. [ WordNet 1.5 ]