\Bore\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Boring}.] [OE. borien, AS. borian; akin to Icel. bora, Dan.
bore, D. boren, OHG. por?n, G. bohren, L. forare, Gr. ? to
plow, Zend bar. [root]91.]
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 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 one's 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 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.
                                               --Dryden.
4. (Man.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; --
   said of a horse. --Crabb.

\Bore\ (b[=o]r), 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.
         Love's 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. b[=a]ra wave: cf. G. empor upwards, OHG.
bor height, burren to lift, perh. allied to AS. beran, E. 1st
{bear}. [root]92.] (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 & 2d {Bear}.