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
(Bore) 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
(Bore), n. [Icel. bara wave: cf. G. empor upwards, OHG. bor height, burren to lift, perh. allied
to AS. beran, E. 1st bear. &radic92.] (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
(Bore), imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.
Boreal
(Bo"re*al) a. [L. borealis: cf. F. boréal. See Boreas.] Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the
north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast.
So from their own clear north in radiant streams,
Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn.
Thomson.
Boreas
(||Bo"re*as) n. [L. boreas, Gr. .] The north wind; — usually a personification.
Borecole
(Bore"cole`) 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.
Boredom
(Bore"dom) n.
1. The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui. Dickens.
2. The realm of bores; bores, collectively.
Boree
(Bo*ree") n. Same as BourrÉé. [Obs.] Swift.
