Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: BORD'ER – BOR'ING
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BORD'ER, v.i.
- To confine; to touch at the edge, side or end; to be contiguous or adjacent; with on or upon; as, Connecticut on the north borders on or upon Massachusetts.
- To approach near to. Wit, which borders upon profaneness, deserves to be branded as folly. – Tillotson.
BORD'ER, v.t.
- To make a border; to adorn with a border of ornaments; as, to border a garment or a garden.
- To reach to; to touch at the edge or end; to confine upon; to be contiguous to. Sheba and Raamah border the Persian gulf. – Ralegh.
- To confine within bounds to limit. [Not used.] – Shak.
BORD'ER-ED, pp.
Adorned or furnished with a border.
BORD'ER-ER, n.
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. – Bacon.
BORD'ER-ING, ppr.
Lying adjacent to; forming a border.
Money paid for setting up boards or a stall in market. – Burn.
BORD'LAND, n. [bord and land. See Board.]
In old law, the demain land which a lord kept in his hands for the maintenance of his bord, board, or table. – Spelman.
BORD'LODE, or BORD-LOAD, n. [bord and load.]
The service required of a tenant to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house; also, the quantity of provision paid by a bord-man for bond-land. – Bailey.
BORD'MAN, n. [bord and man.]
A tenant of bord-land, who supplied his lord with provisions. – Encyc.
BORD'-RA-GING, n.
An incursion upon the borders of a country. [Obs.] – Spenser.
BORD'SERV-ICE, n. [bord and service.]
The tenure by which bord-land was held, which was the payment of a certain quantity of provisions to the lord. In lieu of this the tenant now pays sixpence an acre. – Encyc.
BORD'URE, n.
In heraldry, a tract or compass of metal, color or fur, within the escutcheon, and around it. – Bailey.
BORE, pret.
of Bear. [See Bear.]
BORE, n.
- The hole made by boring. Hence, the cavity or hollow of a gun, cannon, pistol or other fire-arm; the caliber, whether formed by boring or not.
- Any instrument for making holes by boring or turning, as an auger, gimlet or wimble.
BORE, n.
A tide, swelling above another tide. – Burke. A sudden influx of the tide into a river or narrow strait. – Cyc.
BORE, v.i.
- To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
- To pierce or enter by boring; as, an auger bores well.
- To push forward toward a certain point. Boring to the west. – Dryden.
- With horsemen, a horse bores, when he carries his nose to the ground. – Dict.
- In a transitive or intransitive sense, to pierce the earth with scooping irons, which, when drawn out, bring with them samples of the different stratums through which they pass. This is a method of discovering veins of ore and coal without opening a mine. – Encyc.
BORE, v.t. [Sax. borian; Sw. bora; D. booren; Ger. bohren; Dan. borer, to bore; D. boor; Ger. bohrer; Dan. borre, a borer; L. foro and perforo, to bore, to perforate; Russ. burav, a borer; Gr. πειρω, to pierce or transfix; also, to pass over, in which sense it coincides with ferry. The Celtic ber, bear, a spit, L. veru, from thrusting or piercing, coincide in elements with this root. Pers. بَيَرْه birah, a borer.]
- To perforate or penetrate a solid body and make a round hole by turning an auger, gimlet, or other instrument. Hence, to make hollow; to form a round hole; as, to bore a cannon.
- To eat out or make a hollow by gnawing or corroding, as a worm.
- To penetrate or break through by turning or labor; as, to bore through a crowd. – Gay.
BO'RE-AL, a. [L. borealis. See Boreas.]
Northern; pertaining to the north or the north wind. – Pope.
BO'RE-AS, n. [L. boreas; Gr. βορεας, the north wind; Russ. boria, boreas, and buria, a storm or tempest; buran, a tempest with snow. The Russ. gives the radical sense.]
The northern wind; a cold northerly wind. – Milton.
BORE'-COLE, n.
A species of Brassica or Cabbage. – Fam. of Plants.
BOR'ED, pp.
Perforated by an auger or other turning instrument; made hollow.
BO-REE', n. [Fr.]
A certain dance, or movement in common time, or four crotchets in a bar; always beginning in the last quaver or last crotchet of the measure. – Busby.
BOR'ER, n.
- One who bores; also an instrument to make holes with by turning.
- Terebella, the piercer, a genus of Sea worms, that pierce wood.
BOR'ING, n.
A place made by boring.
BOR'ING, ppr.
Perforating by an auger or other turning instrument; making hollow.