C. T. Onions, A Shakespeare Glossary, bore

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fairest-boding:

falling sickness:

falsely: - fast-lost:

fastly: - federary:

fiddlestick: - first

first-conceived: - flesh'd:

fleshly: - folly-fall'n:

fond - forehand

forehorse: - foulness:

foundation: - fretful

friar: - furniture:

furrow: - fustilarian:

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bore sb. (2 metaphor from a gun)

1. small hole Cor. IV. vi. 88 (see AUGER), Cym. III. ii. 58 “the bores of hearing” (=the ears).

2. calibre (fig.) Ham. IV. vi. 28 “too light for the bore of the matter.”

A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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