Boring: alternatives and connections

The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.

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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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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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of Deaden

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of Drill

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Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

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Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks.

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imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.

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Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.

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Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse.

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Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book.

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