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completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waste up"; "a nude model"

(mining terms) a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes

a person who evokes boredom

a person who evokes boredom

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"

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.

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.

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.

To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.

To befool; to trick.

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).

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.

To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

A hole made by boring; a perforation.

The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.

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

A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.

Caliber; importance.

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

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.

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.

imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.

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

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.

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.

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.

To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.

To befool; to trick.

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).

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.

To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

A hole made by boring; a perforation.

The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.

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

A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.

Caliber; importance.

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

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.

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.

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

imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.

Of bear.

To pierce of drill a hole in; to form by piercing or drilling; to force with effort; to weary by tiresome repetition, or by dulness; to annoy.

To make a hole; pierce; to push forward toward a certain point.

A hole made by piercing or drilling; hence, the cavity or hollow of a gun; the inside diameter of a gun; hole; a stupid, uninteresting person; any person or thing that causes dull weariness.

Of bear.

To pierce so as to form a hole: to weary or annoy.

A hole made by boring: the size of the cavity of a gun: a person or thing that wearies.

Did bear, pa.t. of BEAR.

A tidal flood which rushes with great force into the mouths of certain rivers.

A hole made by boring; a wearisome person.

Imp. Of BEAR, v.

To make a hole in; pierce; perforate; tire; weary; annoy.

A hole made by boring; the interior diameter, as of a firearm.

A tiresome person; an annoyance.

n. The hole made by boring; the cavity or hollow of any firearm;—one who, or that which, wearies by repetition or dulness.

n. [Old Hebrew, German] A tidal flood of great height and forced formed at the mouths of some rivers;—a sudden influx of the tide.

The hole made by boring; the instrument with which a hole is bored; the size of any hole.

The preterite of Bear.