Bore /(bōr)/

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.

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.
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. [Obs.]

   I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, Baffled and bored, it seems.

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

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. [Obs.]

   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.

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.)

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