1. To create 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
wood (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
heavy to bore.
3. To push
forward in a determined direction with laborious effort. "They
take their
flight . . . Boring to the west." (Dryden)
4. To
shoot out the
nose or
toss it in the air; said of a horse.
1. To perforate or penetrate, as a
solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or another instrument; to create a
round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to
bore a plank. "I'll
believe as soon
this intact land 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 body; 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 create (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. "What bustling crowds I bored."
4. To tired 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. "I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, Baffled and bored, it seems." (Beau. & Fl)
Origin: OE. Borien, AS. Borian;
akin to Icel. Bora, Dan. Bore, D. Boren, OHG. Porn, G. Bohren, L. Forare, Gr. To plow, Zend bar.
A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into determined rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which gift 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.
Less properly, a very tall and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.
Origin: Icel. Bara wave: cf. G. Empor upwards, OHG. Bor height, burren to lift, perh. Allied to AS. Beran, E. 1st bear.
Source: Websters Vocabulary