How do you spell Bore
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1) v. t. - 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.
2) v. t. - 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.
3) v. t. - 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) v. t. - To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
5) v. t. - To befool; to trick.
6) v. i. - 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).
7) v. i. - 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) v. i. - To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
9) v. i. - To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
10) n. - A hole made by boring; a perforation.
11) n. - The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
12) n. - The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
13) n. - A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
14) n. - Caliber; importance.
15) n. - A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
16) n. - 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.
17) n. - 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.
18) - imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.
19) v. i. - To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
20) v. i. - To endure with patience; to be patient.
21) v. i. - To press; -- with on or upon, or against.
22) v. i. - To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
23) v. i. - To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?
24) v. i. - To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
25) v. i. - To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
26) n. - A bier.
27) n. - Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
28) n. - An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.
29) n. - One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
30) n. - Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
31) n. - A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
32) n. - A portable punching machine.
33) n. - A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
34) v. t. - To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
35) n. - Alt. of Bere
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