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A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.

Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly. -- Boor"ish*ly, adv. -- Boor"ish*ness, n. Which is in truth a gross and boorish opinion. Milton.

See Bort.

A noisy or unrestrained carousal or frolic; a spree. [Slang] Kipling.

A small cannon supported by a swiveled rest on the back of a camel, whence it is fired, -- used in the East.

A boor killed for the table.

A churl; a boor; a peasant or countryman. [Obs.] Shak.

A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor. A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood. Sir P. Sidney.

Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish. Hawthorne. -- Clod"dish*ness, n.

Boorish; rude. C. Bronté.

A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney.

An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.

Literally, a fly swallower; hence, once who keeps his mouth open; a boor; a silly and credulous person.

A rude or clownish person; boor; lout.

Rough and coarse; boorish. [R.] Cynical and hirsute in his behavior. Life of A. Wood.

An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic. "Jack fool." Chaucer. Since every Jack became a gentleman, There 's many a gentle person made a Jack. Shak.

Any kind of boor or low-lived person. [Obs.] Blount.

Low; mean; boorish; vagabond. "Such pady persons." Digges (1585). "The paddy persons." Motley.

A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously. Before I buy a bargain of such runts, I'll buy a college for bears, and live among 'em. Beau. & Fl.

Making a shrill, creaking sound. Sir T. Browne. The Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart. Longfellow. Stridulous laryngitis (Med.), a form of croup, or laryngitis, in children, associated with dyspnoea, occurring usually at night, and marked by crowing or stridulous breathing.