bordman 
bordmant, . [ME. 'bordman (only in ML. 
bordiuaHiiux), < huril, a table, board (but prob. 
with ref. to bonliiiir, q. v.), + man.'] In law, a 
i CUM lit of bord-land; a bordar. 
bordont, . A form of bum-ilmi. 
bordraget, . Se< im/irmi. 
bord-service (bord'ser'vis), . [< bord-, aa in 
iMii-ilni/i; honliiiiiii, etc.. + .-a-ri-ift; } InJun/nl 
lair, tho tenure of bord-lands ; bordage. 
bordure (bor'dur), n. [Early mod. E., < ME. 
boriliiri; < OF", (and F.) boriliiri : see lmnli-r.~\ 
An obsolete or archaic form of bonier, retained 
in heraldry. 
The netlierest ln-iii or l*>nlnr>' of these clothes. 
Chaucer, Bocthius, i. prose 1. 
Instead of railes ami lialiM'-rs, there is a Ixirdure of 
capital letter-. K,;-/ : ,,i, Diary, Aug. 31, 1654. 
Bordure compone'. See rmitiionl. 
bore 1 (bor), c. ; pret. and pp. bored, ppr. bornii/. 
[Early mod. E. also sometimes hour; < ME. bo- 
ren, borirn, < AS. borian = D. bore n = OHG. 
boron, MHG. born, G. bohren = Icel. bora = Sw. 
borra = Dan. bore, bore, = L. fordre, bore, per- 
forate (see foramen, perforate), = Gr. <pap*v, 
0apow, plow : a secondary verb, from, or from 
the same root as, the formally more primitive 
noun, AS. bor (= D. boor = MLG. bor = Q. bolir 
= Icel. borr = Sw. borr = Dan. bor), an auger, 
gimlet; cf. Gr. 0u/<;, a plow, connected with 
0d/M}f, a ravine, ^d/nrj-g, pharynx: see pharynx. 
See borel, n.] I. trans. 1. To pierce or per- 
forate with a rotatory cutting instrument ; 
make a circular hole in by turning an auger, 
gimlet, drill, or anything that will produce the 
game effect: as, to bore a plank or a cannon; 
to bore the ground for water, or with a stick. 
I'll believe as soon, 
This whole earth may he bored, and that the moon 
May through the centre creep. Shak., M. \. D., III. 2. 
2. To form or produce by rotatory perforation : 
as, to bore a hole or a well. 
situ 
of t , 
means of explosives. 
Eistler, Modern High Explosives, p. 811. 
3. To penetrate, make, or gain as if by boring; 
push or drive through or into by any pene- 
trating action : as, to bore a plank, or a hole in 
a plank, with a rifle-ball. 
Bustling crowds I bored. day, Trivia, iii. 395. 
With great difficulty we bored our way through the 
moving |ice| pack. A. W. Greelij, Arctic Service, p. 103. 
4f. To befool ; trick ; overreach. 
At this instant 
He bore* me with some trick. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., L 1. 
I am abused, betrayed, I am laughed at, scorned, baf- 
fled, and bored, it seems. Fletcher, Spanish Curate, iv. 6. 
II. intrans. 1. To pierce or penetrate, as a 
gimlet or similar instrument ; make a hole or 
holes: as, the auger bores well. 2. To gink a 
bore-hole, as in searching for water, coal, etc. 
3. To be suited for piercing with an auger or 
other boring-tool : as, wood that bores well or 
ill. 4. To push forward or through toward a 
certain point : as, " boring to the west," Dryden. 
The elder streets (of Florence] go boriny away into the 
heart of the city in narrow dusky vistas of a fascinating 
plcturesqueness. II. Jamen, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 271. 
5. In the HUIHC<II; to thrust the head forward 
as far as possible: said of a horse. = 8yn. 1. Per- 
i",-nr,\ etc. See penetrate. 
bore 1 (bor), . [In sense 1, < ME. bore, < AS. 
bor (= D. bimr, fern., = MLG. bor, m., = OHG. 
horn. t'.. ( !. hohr = Icpl. horr = Sw. borr, m., = 
Dan. bor, neut.), an auger, a gimlet; in sense 3, 
< ME. bore = Icel. bora, a hole ; in other senses 
directly from the verb: see Sore 1 , p.] If. Any 
instrument for making holes by boring or turn- 
ing, as an auger or gimlet. 
A hole fit for tlie lite or square 'we. ./ox. Mnmn. 
2. A hollow hand-tool used in nail-making to 
hold a nail while its head is being formed. 
3. A hole made by boring, or as if by boring: 
ag, "an auger's bof," Slink., Cor., iv. 6. s,,, , iti 
call\ (l A deep vertical perforation made In thcearllt 
ill search of water, or to ascertain the nature of the nn 
dcrlvim; strata, as in searching for coal or other minerals; 
a Iwre-hole. (b) The cylindrical cavity or perforation ot 
a tube, rifle, cannon, etc. 
Hence 4. The caliber or internal diameter 
of a hole or perforation, whether made by bor- 
ing or not, especially of the cavity of a gnu or 
tube. 
Beside th' Artillery 
of fourscore pieces of a mighty Rnare. 
I>,;iiitiiH, Noah's Floud (ed. 1630), p. 108. 
The borer of wind instrument-. Bacon. 
5t. A wound or thrust. -Blue bore, an opening in 
the clouds showing the blue sky. (Scotch.] To wick a 
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bore, in tlie OTHIC of curling, to drive a stone dexterously 
tlnoticli an opening hetweeii two L-'lards. 
bore- (buri. n. [Early mod. E. also boar, Imer ; 
appurXMIO. ban; H wave, billow (once, in doubt- 
ful use) (cf. F. barn; a bore); prob. < leel. bum 
= Norw. baara, a billoweauged by wind ; cf. Sw. 
dial, bdr, a hill, mound; prob. ciiniiei>teil with 
Icel. brra = E. brtir 1 .] An abrupt tidal wave 
which breaks in an estuary, the water then rush- 
ing up the channel with great violence and 
noise. The tidal wave being a wave of translation, the 
shoaling and narrowing of channels where the tide rises 
very rapidly produce a great increase in the height of the 
wave. The forward parts of the wave, too, In shoaling 
water advance less rapidly than the backward parts, an, I 
so cause a great accumulation in front. The most cele- 
brated tHires in the old world are those of the (langes, In- 
dus, and Brahmaputra. The last is said to rise to a In ii:lit 
of 12 feet. In the Amazon and other rivers in Bra/il ih 
bore reaches a height of from 12 to 16 feet. In England 
the lx>re is observed more especially in the Severn, Trent, 
and Wye, and in the Solway Frith. Tlie bores In some 
bays at the head of the Bay of Fundy are very remarkable. 
In some parts of England it is called eaqer (which see) ; on 
the Amazon, the //*',/,,*<,, -i .- on the Seine, the barre ; and 
on the Garonne and Dordogne in France, the mrucaret. 
When the rise of the tide begins, the surface of the water 
is disturbed in mid-channel ; but the water is not broken, 
it is merely like a common wave. But as this rapid rise 
elevates the surface suddenly above the level of the flat 
sands, the water immediately rushes over them with great 
velocity, and with a broken front, making a great noise. 
And this is the whole of the bore. 
Airy, Encyc. Metrop., Tides and Waves, p. 514. 
bore 3 (bor), v. t. ; pret. and pp. bored, ppr. bor- 
ing. [Thig word, verb and noun (the noun in 
senses 1 and 2 appar. preceding the verb), came 
into use about the middle of the 18th century ; 
usually considered a particular use of bore 1 . 
and compared with G. drillcn, bore, drill, also 
bore, weary ; but an immediate derivation from 
borel i s philologically improbable, though it 
may be explained as a twist of fashionable 
slang (to which, indeed, the word has always 
belonged), perhaps resting on some forgotten 
anecdote. At any rate, the word ig now inde- 
pendent of bore 1 .] 1. To weary by tedious 
iteration or repetition ; tire, especially in con- 
versation, by insufferable dullness ; teage ; an- 
noy; pester. 
"I will tell him to come," said Buckhurst. "Oh I no, 
no ; don't tell him to come," said Millbank. " Don't bore 
him." Ditraeli, Coningsby, i. 10. 
Bolting away to a chamber remote, 
Inconceivably bored by his Witen-gemote, 
Edwy left them all joking, 
And drinking, and smoking. 
Hiif/iiiui. Ingoldsby Legends, I. 21R. 
2. In racing, to annoy or impede by crowding 
againgt or out of the way. 
bore 3 (bor), . [See bore 3 , p.] If. Ennui ; a fit 
of ennui or listlegs disgugt or weariness. 2f. 
One who suffers from ennui. 3. One who or 
that which bores one, or causes ennui or annoy- 
ance ; anything which by dullness taxes the 
patience, or otherwise causes trouble or an- 
noyance ; specifically, a dull, tiregome, or un- 
congenial person who tires or annoys by forcing 
hig company or conversation on others, or who 
pergigts in uninteresting talk or undesired at- 
tentions. 
Society Is now one polished horde, 
Formed of two mighty tribes, the bores and bored. 
Byron, Don Juan, xili. 95. 
Learned folk 
Who drench yon with aesthetics till yon feel 
As if all beauty were a ghastly bore, 
The faucet to let loose a wash of words. 
l.inirll. Cathedral. 
A sort of good-natured persistency, which Induced the 
impression that he was nothing worse than a well-mean- 
ing bore, who was to be endured at all times for the sake 
of his occasional usefulness and universal cheerfulness. 
Touri/fe, Fool's Errand, p. 32. 
bore 4 (bor). Preterit of 
bore"'t, M. An obsolete spelling of boar. 
bore 8 (bor), . [E. dial., short f or borecole, q. v. ] 
A kind of cabbage ; borecole. Tttsner. 
Boread (bo're-ad), n. and a. [< Gr. Vopeaorx, a 
son of Boreas, Bo/w<if (Bopeao-), a daughter of 
Boreas, adj. (fern.), boreal; < Sopiaf. Boreag.] 
I. . A child of Boreas. 
II. a. [I.e.'] Pertaining or relating to north- 
ern regions; boreal. [Rare.] 
boreal (bo're-al), a. [< ME. borian, < LL. fto- 
1'i-iiliK, < L. Horeax, Boreas.] Pertaining to, situ- 
ated in, or issuing from the north ; relating or 
pertaining to the north or to the north wind ; 
northern. 
Above the Siberian snows 
We'll sport amid the boreal morning. 
WordtimrtK, Peter Bell. 
In boreal Dakota, whose capital bears his name. Ccr- 
niany and Bismarck arc connected conceptions of the 
mind. .V ,1. Rrr., CLXIII. 105. 
borer 
Boreal POle, in H. n,-l, ti-rmiinilogt. tile (Nile of the mag- 
M. n, n, t ,il, \\lii--li point- to th, illi 
under unit/. Boreal province, iii ot th.. 
province-, established with i.i.nnrc t,, the distribution 
uf marine ammaK It , nil,| i, . - tin- North Ulalilic south 
of the arctic province to a line passing through the naze 
of Norway and rape Cod. 
borean (bo're-an), a. [< Itnmix + -an.] Same 
as boreal. 
Boreas (bo're-ag), M. [L., also Rorrax, < Gr. 
Bopiaf, Attic Boppaf, north wind, the god of the 
north wind; cf. Russ. buri/n, storm, /mrtinu, a 
tempegt with snow : see bora.] 1. In dr. tin/Hi., 
the god of the north wind. 2. The north wind 
personified; a cold, northerly wind. 
borecole (bor'kol), H. [Also formerly boorcole; 
< D. boerenkool, borecole, lit. peasant's cab- 
bage, < boer, peasant, + kool, cabbage: gee 
boor and cole.] A variety of liramtica oleracea, 
a cabbage with curled or wrinkled leaves which 
have no tendency to form into a hard head. It 
is valued chiefly" for winter use. 
boredom (bor'dum), n. [< bore 3 , n., + -dom.] 
1. The gtate of being a bore, or the tendency 
to become tiregome and uninteresting. 
I presently found that here too the male could assert 
his superiority and show a more vigorous boredom. 
George Eliot, Theophrastus Such, XV. 
2. The state of being bored ; tedium ; ennui. 
Some, stretching their legs, presented symptoms of an 
escape from boredom. Di*raeli, Young Duke. 
Our "sea-anemone," a creature with which everybody, 
since the great aquarium mania, must have become famil- 
iar, even to the limits of boredom. 
Huxley, Critiques and Addresses, p. 113. 
3. Bores collectively. 
boreet (bo're), n. [Also written bory, bourree; 
< F. bourree, a rustic dance.] A dance or move- 
ment in common time. 
Dick could neatly dance a jig, 
But Tom was best at boreet. 
Siri/t, Tom and Dick. 
boreen (bo-ren'), [< Ir. bothar (pron. bo'her), 
a road, + dim. -in.] A lane or narrow road. 
[Anglo-Irish.] 
boregat (bor'e-gat), M. A chiroid fish of the 
genug Hexagrammus: better known as bodieron 
and rock-trout. See cut under Hexayrammug. 
bore-hole (bor'hol), n. A hole made in boring 
for minerals, water, etc. ; specifically, the hole 
in which a blasting-charge is placed. See bor- 
ing, 2. 
boreism (bor'izm), n. [Also written borixm ; < 
bore 3 + -ism.] The action of a bore; the con- 
dition of being a bore. [Rare.] 
borelH, borrePt, . [Early mod. E., prop, burel, 
burrel, burrell, < ME. borel, burel, < OF. burel, 
later bureau, a coarse woolen stuff (mod. F. 
bureau, a desk, writing-table, bureau, > E. bu- 
reau, q. v.): see burrel, and cf. birrus.] 1. A 
coarse woolen stuff, or garments made of it; 
hence, clothing in general. 
I wol renne out my borel for to shewe. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. SR6. 
2. A kind of light stuff the warp of which wag 
silk and the woof wool; a kind of serge, 
borel-t, borrel 2 t, a. [ME., also burel, supposed 
to be a particular use of borel 1 , n., q. v. Some- 
times used archaically in mod. E.] 1. Belong- 
ing to the laity, ag opposed to the clergy. 
And more we se of Christes secre thinges 
Than borel folk, although that they ben kinges, 
We live In povert and in abstinence. 
And borel folk in richcsse and dispense. 
Chaucer, Summoner's Tale, L 104. 
2. Rude; unlearned. 
But, sires, liecause I am a burel man . . . 
Haveth me excused of my rude speehe. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Franklin s Tale, 1. 44. 
I am but rude and barrel. Speiwer, Shep. Cal., July. 
Thou wert ever of a tender conscience, son Wilkin, 
though tlum hast but a rough and bnml bearing. 
Scott, Betrothed, viL 
borelyt, a. An obsolete form of burly. 
borent. Obsolete form of born, borne, pp. of 
ftearl. Chaucer. 
borer (bor'er), . [< bore 1, r., + -er* ; = Q. 
bohrer.] 1. One who boreg or pierces. 2. A 
tool or instrument used for boring; an auger; 
specifically, in Great Britain, a drill, an imple- 
ment used in boring holes in rock. 3. A name 
common to many minute coleopterous insects 
of the group Xylopliagu, whose larvee eat their 
way into old wood, forming at the bottom of 
the holes a little cocoon, whence they emerge 
as small beetles. 4. Some other insect which 
boreg, either in the larval or adult gtate. 6. 
A local English name of the glutinous hag, Mi/s- 
ine gltttinosa. See cut under hag. 6. A bi- 
valve mollusk which bores into wood or stone, 
