BORE, v.t. [L. foro and perforo, to bore, to perforate; Gr. to pierce or transfix; also, to pass over, in which sense it coincides with ferry; L. veru, from thrusting or piercing, coincide in elements with this root.

of Bear. [See Bear.]

1. The hole made by boring. Hence, the cavity or hollow of a gun, cannon, pistol or other fire-arm; the caliber, whether formed by boring or not.
2. Any instrument for making holes by boring or turning, as an auger, gimlet or wimble.

A tide, swelling above another tide. – Burke. A sudden influx of the tide into a river or narrow strait. – Cyc.

1. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
2. To pierce or enter by boring; as, an auger bores well.
3. To push forward toward a certain point. Boring to the west. – Dryden.
4. With horsemen, a horse bores, when he carries his nose to the ground. – Dict.
5. In a transitive or intransitive sense, to pierce the earth with scooping irons, which, when drawn out, bring with them samples of the different stratums through which they pass. This is a method of discovering veins of ore and coal without opening a mine. – Encyc.

1. To perforate or penetrate a solid body and make a round hole by turning an auger, gimlet, or other instrument. Hence, to make hollow; to form a round hole; as, to bore a cannon.
2. To eat out or make a hollow by gnawing or corroding, as a worm.
3. To penetrate or break through by turning or labor; as, to bore through a crowd. – Gay.

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.
   Shak.

2. 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).
3. A hole made by boring; a perforation.
4. 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.
   
   
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5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.
8. 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.

9. 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.
   
   
   "What bustling crowds I bored." Gay.
10. To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
    
    

    They take their flight . . . boring to the west.
    Dryden.

11. The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
12. 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.

13. To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
    
    
    Crabb.
14. A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
15. To befool; to trick.
    
    
    [Obs.]

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

16. Caliber; importance.
    
    
    [Obs.]

    Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
    Shak.

17. 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.