BPage 222
- English Word Border Definition To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
- English Word Border Definition To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest.
- English Word Border Definition To confine within bounds; to limit.
- English Word Bordered Definition of Border
- English Word Borderer Definition One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region.
- English Word Bordering Definition of Border
- English Word Bordland Definition Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table.
- English Word Bordlode Definition The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house.
- English Word Bordman Definition A bordar; a tenant in bordage.
- English Word Bordrag Definition Alt. of Bordraging
- English Word Bordraging Definition An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid.
- English Word Bordure Definition A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
- English Word Bore Definition 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.
- English Word Bore Definition 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.
- English Word Bore Definition 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.
- English Word Bore Definition To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
- English Word Bore Definition To befool; to trick.
- English Word Bore Definition 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).
- English Word Bore Definition 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.
- English Word Bore Definition To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- English Word Bore Definition To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
- English Word Bore Definition A hole made by boring; a perforation.
- English Word Bore Definition The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
- English Word Bore Definition The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
- English Word Bore Definition A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
- English Word Bore Definition Caliber; importance.
- English Word Bore Definition A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
- English Word Bore Definition 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.
- English Word Bore Definition 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.
- English Word Bore Definition imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.