Vocabulary : Bore to Borer

Bore : of Bear ;; 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 labori
Boreal : Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast. ;; Designating or pertaining to a terrestrial division consisting of the northern and mountainous parts of both the Old and the New World; -- equivalent to the Holarctic region exclusive of the Transition, Sonoran, and corresponding areas. The term is used by American authors and applied by them chiefly to the Nearctic subregion. The Boreal region includes approximately all of North and Central America in which the mean temperature of the hottest season does not exceed 18 C. (= 64.4 F.). Its subdivisions are the Arctic zone and Boreal zone, the latter including the area between the Arctic and Transition zones.
Boreas : The north wind; -- usually a personification.
Borecole : 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 : of Bore
Boredom : The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui. ;; The realm of bores; bores, collectively.
Boree : Same as BourrEe.
Borel : See Borrel.
Borele : The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).
Borer : One that bores; an instrument for boring. ;; A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo. ;; Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances. ;; One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple. ;; The hagfish (Myxine).
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