Bore

v. t.	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. [imp. & p. p. Bored ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Boring.] 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.
	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. I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, Baffled and bored, it seems. - Beau. & Fl.
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.
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. 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.
	1.	(Physical Geog.) 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.
imp.	1.	imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.

Noun	1.	bore - a person who evokes boredom Synonyms: dullard
	2.	bore - a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) Synonyms: aegir, eager, eagre, tidal bore
	3.	bore - diameter of a tube or gun barrel Synonyms: caliber, calibre, gauge
	4.	bore - a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes Synonyms: bore-hole, drill hole
Verb	1.	bore - cause to be bored Synonyms: tire Antonyms: interest - excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of
	2.	bore - make a hole with a pointed power or hand tool; "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil" Synonyms: drill

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