a. 1. Of or pertaining to a tree, or to trees; of nature of trees. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Attached to, found in or upon, or frequenting, woods or trees; as, arboreal animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

Woodpeckers are eminently arboreal. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with an arbor; lined with trees. “An arboreal walk.” Pollok. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arboreous, fr. arbor tree. ] 1. Having the form, constitution, or habits, of a proper tree, in distinction from a shrub. Loudon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss. Quincy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arborescens, p. pr. of arborescere to become a tree, fr. arbor tree. ] Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. “Arborescent hollyhocks.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. resembling a tree in form and branching structure.
Syn. -- arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, treelike, tree-shaped. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. arboret, dim. of arbre tree, L. arbor ] A small tree or shrub. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers
Imbordered on each bank. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Arboreta [ L., a place grown with trees. ] A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bored p. pr. & vb. n. Boring. ] [ OE. borien, AS. borian; akin to Icel. bora, Dan. bore, D. boren, OHG. por&unr_;n, G. bohren, L. forare, Gr. &unr_; to plow, Zend bar. √91. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood. T. W. Harris. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. “What bustling crowds I bored.” Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester. [ 1913 Webster ]

He bores me with some trick. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Used to come and bore me at rare intervals. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To befool; to trick. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned,
Baffled and bored, it seems. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. 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). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort. [ 1913 Webster ]

They take their flight . . . boring to the west. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Man.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A hole made by boring; a perforation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bores of wind instruments. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Caliber; importance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. bāra wave: cf. G. empor upwards, OHG. bor height, burren to lift, perh. allied to AS. beran, E. 1st bear. √92. ] (Physical Geog.) (a) 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. (b) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of 1st & 2d Bear. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. borealis: cf. F. boréal. See Boreas. ] 1. Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast. [ 1913 Webster ]

So from their own clear north in radiant streams,
Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biogeography) Designating or pertaining to a terrestrial division consisting of the northern and mountainous parts of both the Old and the New World; -- equivalent to the Holarctic region exclusive of the Transition, Sonoran, and corresponding areas. The term is used by American authors and applied by them chiefly to the Nearctic subregion. The Boreal region includes approximately all of North and Central America in which the mean temperature of the hottest season does not exceed 18° C. (= 64.4° F.). Its subdivisions are the Arctic zone and
Boreal zone, the latter including the area between the Arctic and Transition zones. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ L. boreas, Gr. &unr_;. ] The north wind; -- usually a personification. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. D. boerenkool (lit.) husbandman's cabbage. ] A brassicaceous plant of many varieties, cultivated for its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. tired of the world; bored with life.
Syn. -- world-weary. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence. Opposite of interested.
Syn. -- blase. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The realm of bores; bores, collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Bourrée. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (mining) a hole or passage made by a drill, especially one made for exploratory purposes.
Syn. -- bore, drill hole. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Borrel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One that bores; an instrument for boring. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo. (b) Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances. (c) One of the larvæ of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple. (d) The hagfish (Myxine). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. In a shotgun, a bore which is tapered to a slightly smaller diameter at a short distance (usually 21/2 to 3 inches) to the rear of the muzzle, in order to prevent the rapid dispersion of the shot. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A shotgun that is made with such a bore. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chokebored p. pr. & vb. n. Chokeboring. ] To provide with a chokebore. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who labors with another; an associate in labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Also corrobboree, corrobori, etc. ] [ Native name. ] 1. A nocturnal festivity with which the Australian aborigines celebrate tribal events of importance. Symbolic dances are given by the young men of the tribe, while the women act as musicians. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A song or chant made for such a festivity. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. A festivity or social gathering, esp. one of a noisy or uproarious character; hence, tumult; uproar. [ Australia ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Joinery) A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the ear perforated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hellebore. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Forbear. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, harbors. [ 1913 Webster ]

Geneva was . . . a harborer of exiles for religion. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. helleborus, elleborus, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;; cf. F. hellébore, ellébore. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) A genus of perennial herbs (Helleborus) of the Crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and even poisonous qualities. Helleborus niger is the European black hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or earliest spring. Helleborus officinalis was the officinal hellebore of the ancients. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Any plant of several species of the poisonous liliaceous genus Veratrum, especially Veratrum album and Veratrum viride, both called white hellebore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. hyperboreus, Gr. &unr_;; "ype`r over, beyond + &unr_;. See Boreas.] 1. (Greek Myth.) Of or pertaining to the region beyond the North wind, or to its inhabitants. [1913 Webster]

2. Northern; belonging to, or inhabiting, a region in very far north; most northern; hence, very cold; fright, as, a hyperborean coast or atmosphere. [1913 Webster]

The hyperborean or frozen sea. C. Butler (1633). [1913 Webster]

n. 1. (Greek Myth.) One of the people who lived beyond the North wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inhabitant of the most northern regions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etym. uncertain. Cf. Jambone. ] 1. A noisy or unrestrained carousal or frolic; a spree. [ Slang ] Kipling.

A Calcutta-made pony cart had been standing in front of the manager's bungalow when Raja Singh started on his jamboree. W. A. Fraser. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. a large festive gathering. [ PJC ]

3. an assembly of boy scouts, usually at the national or international level, including camping among the activities; -- a term adopted by the Boy Scouts organization. [ PJC ]

a. 1. Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. appearing to require strong effort; as, labored breathing.
Syn. -- heavy, laboured. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In a labored manner; with labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also labourer. ] One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖pos>n. [ NL. Linnaeus Linnæan + L. borealis northern. ] (Bot.) The twin flower which grows in cold northern climates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who works with the hands, rather than with the mind.
Syn. -- laborer, labourer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. not arboreal; not living in trees; -- of animals. Opposite of arboreal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ L. roboreus. ] Made of oak. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Gun.) Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled. -- n. A smoothbore firearm. [ 1913 Webster ]