Part 1288

<blockquote>I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, Baffled and <b>bored</b>, it seems. <i>Beau. & Fl.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Bore</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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>as, to <ex>bore</ex> for water or oil (<ex>i</ex></as>. <i>e</i>., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to <i>bore</i> with a gimlet; to <i>bore</i> into a tree (as insects).</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; <as>as, this timber does not <ex>bore</ex> well, or is hard to <ex>bore</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.</def>

<blockquote>They take their flight . . . <b>boring</b> to the west. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

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<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Ma<?/<?/)</fld> <def>To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; <?/ said of a horse.</def>

<i>Crabb.</i>

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<hw>Bore</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A hole made by boring; a perforation.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>bores</b> of wind instruments. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Love's counselor should fill the <b>bores</b> of hearing. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Caliber; importance.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Yet are they much too light for the <b>bore</b> of the matter. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.</def>

<blockquote>It is as great a <b>bore</b> as to hear a poet read his own verses. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Bore</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Icel. <ets>b\'bera</ets> wave: cf. G. <ets>empor</ets> upwards, OHG. <ets>bor</ets> height, <ets>burren</ets> to lift, perh. allied to AS. <ets>beran</ets>, E. 1st <er>bear</er>. &root;92.]</ety> <fld>(Physical Geog.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>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.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>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.</def>

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<hw>Bore</hw>, <def><tt>imp.</tt> of 1st & 2d <er>Bear</er>.</def>

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<hw>Bo"re*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>borealis</ets>: cf. F. <ets>bor\'82al</ets>. See <er>Boreas</er>.]</ety> <def>Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; <as>as, a <ex>boreal</ex> bird; a <ex>boreal</ex> blast.</as></def>

<blockquote>So from their own clear north in radiant streams, Bright over Europe bursts the <b>boreal</b> morn. <i>Thomson.</i></blockquote>

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