Bore

Ill 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 ones 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.

bore , v. i. 1. To make ahole 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 (bor), 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.

Loves 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 , n. (Icel. bara wave: cf.G. empor upwards, OHG. bor height, burren to lift, perh. allied to AS. beran, E. 1st bear. r92.) (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 , imp. of 1st & 2dBear.