These are the meanings of the letters ABORE when you unscramble them.
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Bare (a.)
Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
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Bare (a.)
With head uncovered; bareheaded.
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Bare (a.)
Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
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Bare (a.)
Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
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Bare (a.)
Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.
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Bare (a.)
Threadbare; much worn.
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Bare (a.)
Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
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Bare (n.)
Surface; body; substance.
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Bare (n.)
That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
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Bare (a.)
To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
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Bare ()
Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
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Bare ()
of Bear
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Bear (v. t.)
To support or sustain; to hold up.
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Bear (v. t.)
To support and remove or carry; to convey.
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Bear (v. t.)
To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.
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Bear (v. t.)
To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
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Bear (v. t.)
To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
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Bear (v. t.)
To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
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Bear (v. t.)
To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor
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Bear (v. t.)
To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
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Bear (v. t.)
To gain or win.
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Bear (v. t.)
To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
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Bear (v. t.)
To render or give; to bring forward.
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Bear (v. t.)
To carry on, or maintain; to have.
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Bear (v. t.)
To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
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Bear (v. t.)
To manage, wield, or direct.
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Bear (v. t.)
To behave; to conduct.
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Bear (v. t.)
To afford; to be to; to supply with.
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Bear (v. t.)
To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
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Bear (v. i.)
To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
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Bear (v. i.)
To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
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Bear (v. i.)
To endure with patience; to be patient.
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Bear (v. i.)
To press; -- with on or upon, or against.
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Bear (v. i.)
To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
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Bear (v. i.)
To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?
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Bear (v. i.)
To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
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Bear (v. i.)
To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
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Bear (n.)
A bier.
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Bear (n.)
Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
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Bear (n.)
An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.
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Bear (n.)
One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
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Bear (n.)
Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
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Bear (n.)
A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
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Bear (n.)
A portable punching machine.
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Bear (n.)
A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
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Bear (v. t.)
To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
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Bear (n.)
Alt. of Bere
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Boar (n.)
The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.
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Bore (v. t.)
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.
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Bore (v. t.)
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.
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Bore (v. t.)
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.
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Bore (v. t.)
To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
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Bore (v. t.)
To befool; to trick.
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Bore (v. i.)
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).
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Bore (v. i.)
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.
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Bore (v. i.)
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
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Bore (v. i.)
To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
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Bore (n.)
A hole made by boring; a perforation.
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Bore (n.)
The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
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Bore (n.)
The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
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Bore (n.)
A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
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Bore (n.)
Caliber; importance.
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Bore (n.)
A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
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Bore (n.)
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.
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Bore (n.)
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.
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Bore ()
imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.
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Bore (imp.)
of Bear
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Brae (n.)
A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.
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Robe (v. t.)
An outer garment; a dress of a rich, flowing, and elegant style or make; hence, a dress of state, rank, office, or the like.
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Robe (v. t.)
A skin of an animal, especially, a skin of the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
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Robe (v. t.)
To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as, fields robed with green.