Bore (imp.) of Bear |
Bore (v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument |
Bore (v. t.) To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus |
Bore (v. t.) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring |
Bore (v. t.) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness |
Bore (v. t.) To befool |
Bore (v. i.) To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument |
Bore (v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns |
Bore (v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort. |
Bore (v. i.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air |
Bore (n.) A hole made by boring |
Bore (n.) The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. |
Bore (n.) The size of a hole |
Bore (n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger. |
Bore (n.) Caliber |
Bore (n.) A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness |
Bore (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. |
Bore (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. |
Bore () imp. of 1st & 2d Bear. |
Diameter (n.) Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries |
Diameter (n.) A diametral plane. |
Diameter (n.) The length of a straight line through the center of an object from side to side |
Diameter (n.) The distance through the lower part of the shaft of a column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See Module. |
Minie rifle () A rifle adapted to minie balls. |
Rifle (v. t.) To seize and bear away by force |
Rifle (v. t.) To strip |
Rifle (v. t.) To raffle. |
Rifle (v. i.) To raffle. |
Rifle (v. i.) To commit robbery. |
Rifle (n.) A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket. |
Rifle (n.) A body of soldiers armed with rifles. |
Rifle (n.) A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes. |
Rifle (v. t.) To grove |
Rifle (v. t.) To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3. |