ppl. a. Also 7 unboared. (UN-1 8. Cf. Du. ongeboord, G. ungebohrt.)

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1598.  Florio, Disforato, without holes, vnbored.

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1626.  B. Jonson, Staple of N., II. iv. We ha the dullest, Most unboar’d Eares for verse amongst our females.

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1799.  G. Smith, Laboratory, I. 16. It is best to give the turner an unbored rocket.

4

1829.  Nat. Philos., I. Heat, ii. 4. (L.U.K.). He took an unbored cannon, with the large projecting piece … which is usually cast with cannon to ensure solidity.

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1861.  Rep. Smithsonian Instit., 1860, 215. A flat, spiral shell exactly like an unbored Haliotis.

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1868.  G. Stephens, Runic Mon., II. 576. The unbored and therefore current Roman Coins.

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