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Bore [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

3. A tide, swelling above another tide.

4. A sudden influx of the tide into a river or narrow strait.

Bore [Preterit tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

of bear. [ See Bear .]

Bore [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

4. Boring to the west.

5. With horsemen, a horse bores, when he carries his nose to the ground.

6. 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.

Bore [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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

2. 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.

3. To eat out or make a hollow by gnawing or corroding, as a worm.

4. To penetrate or break through by turning or labor; as, to bore through a crowd.

Bore Webster's Dictionary 1913

imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.

Bore [Imperfect tense] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Bear

Bore [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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.

6. A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.

7. 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.

8. 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 [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

4. To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.

Bore [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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.

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.

5. To befool; to trick.

Bore-cole [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A species of Brassica or cabbage.

Boreal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Northern; pertaining to the north or the north wind.

Boreal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast.

Boreas [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The northern wind; a cold northerly wind.

Boreas [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The north wind; -- usually a personification.

Boreas Encyclopedia Britannica

BOREAS, in Greek Mythology, was a personification of the north wind, and to be like it he was represented as rough, powerful, and accustomed to gain his ends by irresistible force. A favourite instance of this was the story of his carrying off the beautiful Oreithyia, a daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens, when he found her gathering flowers by the banks of the Ilissus, or at the sources of the Cephisus,—others said the Areopagus, and others, again, the Citadel. lie had sought before to woo her in vain, and now carried her to Mount Ilaemus in Thrace, where they lived as king and queen of the winds, and had two sons, Zetes and Calais, and two daughters, Cleopatra and Chione. For the loss of Oreithyia the Athenians in after times counted on Boreas’s friendliness, and were assured of it when he sent storms which wrecked the Persian fleet at Athos and at Sepiae. For this they erected to him a sanctuary, or, as others said, an altar near the Ilissus, and held a festival in his honour. Thurii also, which was a colony of Athens, offered a sacrifice to him every year, because he had destroyed the hostile fleet of Dionysius the elder. Boreas was described as a son of Astraeus and Aurora. In works of art he was represented as bearded, powerful, draped agaiust cold, and winged. On the Tower of the Winds at Athens he is figured holding a shell, such as is blown by Tritons. Boreas carrying off Oreithyia is the subject of a beautiful bronze relief in the British Museum, found in the island of Calymna. The same subject occurs frequently on the painted Greek vases.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 4, p. 53
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Borecole [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A brassicaceous plant of many varieties, cultivated for its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale.

Bored [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Perforated by an auger or other turning instrument; made hollow.

Bored [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Bore

Boredom [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.

2. The realm of bores; bores, collectively.

Boree [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A certain dance, or movement in common time, of four crotchets in a bar; always beginning in the last quaver or last crotchet of the measure.

Boree [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as BourrEe.

Borel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Borrel.

Borele [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).

Borelli Encyclopedia Britannica

BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso, the head of what has been called the iatro-mathematical sect, or that which, misled by the great progress which the application of mathematics had produced in the physical sciences, attempted to secure the same advantage for medicine, by subjecting to calculation the phenomena of the living economy. He was born at Naples, January 28, 1608, taught mathematics for some time at Pisa, and seems afterwards to have held the professorship of medicine at Florence. He was greatly favoured by the princes of the house of Medici; but having been engaged in the revolt of Messina, he was obliged to retire to Rome, where he speut the remainder of his life under the protection of Christina, queen of »Sweden, who honoured him with her friendship, and by her liberality softened the rigour of his fortune. He died of pleurisy on the 31st December 1679. Borelli, more judicious than Bellini, restricted the application of his system chiefly to muscular motions, or to those phenomena of the animal economy which are in certain points subject to the laws of mechanics, and was led to the discovery of some principles new in themselves, and directly opposed to the received beliefs of his time. His followers, less cautious, wishing to generalize the application he had made, by hypotheses, to which the return to a sound medical philosophy lias done justice, greatly retarded the restoration of the science....

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 4, p. 53
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Borer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who bores; also an instrument to make holes with by turning.

2. Terebella, the piercer, a genus of sea worms, that pierce wood.

Borer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One that bores; an instrument for boring.

2. A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.

3. Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.

4. One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.

5. The hagfish (Myxine).

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Genesis 6:4

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.

Genesis 16:15

And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.

Genesis 16:16

And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.

Genesis 21:2

For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.

Genesis 21:3

And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.

Genesis 22:23

And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.

Genesis 22:24

And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

Moreover, Nahor’s concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

Genesis 24:24

And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.

She replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.”

Genesis 24:47

And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.

Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

Genesis 25:2

And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Genesis 25:12

Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bare unto Abraham:

This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.

Genesis 30:5

And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.

and Bilhah conceived and bore him a son.

Genesis 30:7

And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.

And Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

Genesis 30:10

And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son.

And Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

Genesis 30:12

And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son.

When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,

Genesis 30:17

And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.

And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore a fifth son to Jacob.

Genesis 30:19

And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.

Again Leah conceived and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

Genesis 30:39

And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

Genesis 31:8

If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.

If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore streaked offspring.

Genesis 31:39

That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.

I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.