Bore: alternatives and connections

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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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 boundar…

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To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.

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To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

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Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

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To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.

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To call out; to summon forth.

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The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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To bring forth young.

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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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One addicted to uttering platitudes, or stale and insipid truisms.

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A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various p…

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A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.

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One that bores; an instrument for boring.

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One that bores; an instrument for boring.

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Alt. of Calibre

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The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8…

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To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.

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A stupid person; a dunce.

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Sharp; sour; acid.

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A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore. See…

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To measure or determine with a gauge.

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A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.

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To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest…

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To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest…

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