The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bear \Bear\ (b[^a]r), v. t. [imp. Bore (b[=o]r) (formerly
   Bare (b[^a]r)); p. p. Born (b[^o]rn), Borne (b[=o]rn);
   p. pr. & vb. n. Bearing.] [OE. beren, AS. beran, beoran, to
   bear, carry, produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G.
   geb[aum]ren, Goth. ba['i]ran to bear or carry, Icel. bera,
   Sw. b[aum]ra, Dan. b[ae]re, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to
   bear, carry, produce, Gr. fe`rein, OSlav. brati to take,
   carry, OIr. berim I bear, Skr. bh[.r] to bear. [root]92. Cf.
   Fertile.]
   1. To support or sustain; to hold up.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To support and remove or carry; to convey.
      [1913 Webster]

            I 'll bear your logs the while.       --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. [Obs.]
      [1913 Webster]

            Bear them to my house.                --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
      [1913 Webster]

            Every man should bear rule in his own house.
                                                  --Esther i.
                                                  22.
      [1913 Webster]

   5. To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a
      mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
      [1913 Webster]

   6. To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or
      distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
      [1913 Webster]

   7. To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to
      entertain; to harbor --Dryden.
      [1913 Webster]

            The ancient grudge I bear him.        --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   8. To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
      [1913 Webster]

            Should such a man, too fond to rule alone,
            Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
                                                  --Pope.
      [1913 Webster]

            I cannot bear
            The murmur of this lake to hear.      --Shelley.
      [1913 Webster]

            My punishment is greater than I can bear. --Gen. iv.
                                                  13.
      [1913 Webster]

   9. To gain or win. [Obs.]
      [1913 Webster]

            Some think to bear it by speaking a great word.
                                                  --Bacon.
      [1913 Webster]

            She was . . . found not guilty, through bearing of
            friends and bribing of the judge.     --Latimer.
      [1913 Webster]

   10. To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense,
       responsibility, etc.
       [1913 Webster]

             He shall bear their iniquities.      --Is. liii.
                                                  11.
       [1913 Webster]

             Somewhat that will bear your charges. --Dryden.
       [1913 Webster]

   11. To render or give; to bring forward. "Your testimony
       bear" --Dryden.
       [1913 Webster]

   12. To carry on, or maintain; to have. "The credit of bearing
       a part in the conversation." --Locke.
       [1913 Webster]

   13. To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain
       without violence, injury, or change.
       [1913 Webster]

             In all criminal cases the most favorable
             interpretation should be put on words that they can
             possibly bear.                       --Swift.
       [1913 Webster]

   14. To manage, wield, or direct. "Thus must thou thy body
       bear." --Shak. Hence: To behave; to conduct.
       [1913 Webster]

             Hath he borne himself penitently in prison? --Shak.
       [1913 Webster]

   15. To afford; to be to; to supply with.
       [1913 Webster]

             His faithful dog shall bear him company. --Pope.
       [1913 Webster]

   16. To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples;
       to bear children; to bear interest.
       [1913 Webster]

             Here dwelt the man divine whom Samos bore.
                                                  --Dryden.
       [1913 Webster]

   Note: In the passive form of this verb, the best modern usage
         restricts the past participle born to the sense of
         brought forth, while borne is used in the other senses
         of the word. In the active form, borne alone is used as
         the past participle.
         [1913 Webster]

   To bear down.
       (a) To force into a lower place; to carry down; to
           depress or sink. "His nose, . . . large as were the
           others, bore them down into insignificance."
           --Marryat.
       (b) To overthrow or crush by force; as, to bear down an
           enemy.

   To bear a hand.
       (a) To help; to give assistance.
       (b) (Naut.) To make haste; to be quick.

   To bear in hand, to keep (one) up in expectation, usually
      by promises never to be realized; to amuse by false
      pretenses; to delude. [Obs.] "How you were borne in hand,
      how crossed." --Shak.

   To bear in mind, to remember.

   To bear off.
       (a) To restrain; to keep from approach.
       (b) (Naut.) To remove to a distance; to keep clear from
           rubbing against anything; as, to bear off a blow; to
           bear off a boat.
       (c) To gain; to carry off, as a prize.
       (d) (Backgammon) To remove from the backgammon board into
           the home when the position of the piece and the dice
           provide the proper opportunity; -- the goal of the
           game is to bear off all of one's men before the
           opponent.

   To bear one hard, to owe one a grudge. [Obs.] "C[ae]sar
      doth bear me hard." --Shak.

   To bear out.
       (a) To maintain and support to the end; to defend to the
           last. "Company only can bear a man out in an ill
           thing." --South.
       (b) To corroborate; to confirm.

   To bear up, to support; to keep from falling or sinking.
      "Religious hope bears up the mind under sufferings."
      --Addison.
      [1913 Webster]

   Syn: To uphold; sustain; maintain; support; undergo; suffer;
        endure; tolerate; carry; convey; transport; waft.
        [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bore \Bore\, 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?n, G. bohren, L. forare, Gr. ? to
   plow, Zend bar. [root]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]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bore \Bore\, 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]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bore \Bore\, n. [Icel. b[=a]ra wave: cf. G. empor upwards, OHG.
   bor height, burren to lift, perh. allied to AS. beran, E. 1st
   bear. [root]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]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bore \Bore\ (b[=o]r), 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]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Eagre \Ea"gre\, n. [AS. e['a]gor, ?gor, in comp., water, sea,
   e['a]gor-stre['a]m water stream, sea.]
   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 or tidal bore. See Bore.
   Ealderman

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bore
    n 1: a person who evokes boredom [syn: bore, dullard]
    2: a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by
       colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) [syn: tidal
       bore, bore, eagre, aegir, eager]
    3: diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: bore, gauge,
       caliber, calibre]
    4: a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for
       exploratory purposes [syn: bore, bore-hole, drill hole]
    v 1: cause to be bored [syn: bore, tire] [ant: interest]
    2: make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool;
       "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into
       the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes
       into the wall" [syn: bore, drill]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

196 Moby Thesaurus words for "bore":
   acupunctuation, acupuncture, aggravation, annoyance, auger,
   bad news, be tedious, bedevilment, billow, bite, bore stiff,
   bore to death, bore to distraction, bore to tears, boring, bother,
   botheration, bothersomeness, breakers, broach, burrow, buttonhole,
   buttonholer, caliber, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, comb, comber,
   countersink, crashing bore, delve, devilment, diameter, difficulty,
   dig, dig out, dike, dirty water, discompose, discontent, disquiet,
   dogging, downer, drag, dredge, drill, drill hole, drip, drive,
   dryasdust, dusty, eagre, empierce, empiercement, ennui,
   exasperation, excavate, exhaust, fix, fixing, flat tire,
   frightful bore, furrow, gape, gaup, gawk, glare, gloat, goggle,
   gore, goring, gouge, gouge out, gravity wave, groove, ground swell,
   grub, harassment, harrying, headache, heave, heavy sea,
   heavy swell, hole, hollow out, honeycomb, hounding, humdrum,
   impale, impalement, jade, lance, lancing, leave unsatisfied, lift,
   lop, lower, mine, molestation, needle, nuisance, pall, peak, peer,
   penetrate, penetration, perforate, perforation, persecution, pest,
   pierce, piercing, pill, pink, popple, prick, pricking, problem,
   proser, punch, punching, puncture, puncturing, quarry, radius,
   ream, ream out, riddle, riffle, ripple, rise, roll, roller,
   rough water, run through, sap, scend, scoop, scoop out, scrabble,
   scrape, scratch, sea, semidiameter, send, send to sleep, shovel,
   sink, skewer, skewering, spade, spear, spike, spit, stab, stare,
   stick, surf, surge, swell, tap, terebration, tidal bore,
   tidal wave, tide wave, tire, transfix, transfixation, transfixion,
   transforation, transpierce, trench, trepan, trepanning, trephine,
   trephining, trial, trouble, trough, tsunami, tunnel, twaddler,
   undulation, vexation, vexatiousness, water wave, wave, wavelet,
   wear out, weary, wet blanket, white horses, whitecaps, worriment,
   worry



V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

BORE
       Break Once Run Everywhere


The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

BORE, n.  A person who talks when you wish him to listen.