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A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.

imlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank. I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored. Shak.

Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast. So from their own clear north in radiant streams, Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn. Thomson.

The north wind; -- usually a personification.

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.

The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui. Dickens.

Same as BourrÉ\'82. [Obs.] Swift.

See Borrel.

The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).

One that bores; an instrument for boring.

One of several spores growing in a series or chain, and produced by one of the fungi called brand.

The conversion of obscure radiant heat info kight; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility. Tyndall.

A light vessel or proa used by the people of Borneo, etc., and by the Dutch in the East Indies.

One of the Carnivora.

A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.

A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algæ. -- Car`po*spor"ic (, a.

A peculiar bitter orange-brown substance, with strong, penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers.

Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word.

A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.

A small South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus, and C. retusus) allied to the armadillo. It is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine.