These are the meanings of the letters CORBE when you unscramble them.
- Bore ()
imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.
- Bore (imp.)
of Bear
- Bore (n.)
A hole made by boring; a perforation.
- Bore (n.)
A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
- 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.
- Bore (n.)
A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
- Bore (n.)
Caliber; importance.
- 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.
- Bore (n.)
The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
- Bore (n.)
The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
- 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.
- 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).
- Bore (v. i.)
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- Bore (v. i.)
To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
- Bore (v. t.)
To befool; to trick.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bore (v. t.)
To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
- Cero (n.)
A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, -- the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero (S. regalis).
- Core (n.)
A body of individuals; an assemblage.
- Core (n.)
A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver.
- Core (n.)
A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.
- Core (n.)
A miner's underground working time or shift.
- Core (n.)
The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
- Core (n.)
The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square.
- Core (n.)
The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince.
- Core (n.)
The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject.
- Core (n.)
The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern.
- Core (v. t.)
To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.
- Core (v. t.)
To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.
- Robe (v. t.)
A skin of an animal, especially, a skin of the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
- 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.
- Robe (v. t.)
To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as, fields robed with green.