st" in
Philadelphia. Besides these, there are examples of his art in Bergamo,
Milan, Genoa, Padua, Siena, Venice, Florence, Munich, Dresden and
Vienna.

Beyond some references in general works on Italian painting, very
little has been written on Paris Bordone since the days of Vasari. In
1900 the committee of the fourth centenary of Paris Bordone, Treviso,
published L. Barlo and G. Biscaro's _Della Vita e delle Opere di Paris
Bordone_; and the _Nuova Antologia_ (November 16, 1900) contains a
sixteen-page paper on Paris Bordone by P.G. Molmenti. (P. G. K.)

BORE, a high tidal wave rushing up a narrow estuary or tidal river. The
bore of the Severn is produced by a tide that rises 18 ft. in an hour
and a half. This body of water becomes compressed in the narrowing
funnel-shaped estuary, and heaped up into an advancing wave extending
from bank to bank. The phenomenon is also particularly well illustrated
in the Bay of Fundy. The origin of this word is doubtful, but it is
usually referred to a Scandinavian word _bara_, a wave, billow. The
other name by which the phenomenon is known, "eagre," is also of unknown
origin. There is, of course, no connexion with "bore," to make a hole by
piercing or drilling, which is a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger.
_bohren_, the Indo-European root being seen in Lat. _forare_, to pierce,
Gr. [Greek: pharos], plough. For the making of deep holes for shafts,
wells, &c., see BORING. The substantival use of this word is generally
confined to the circular cavity of objects of tubular shape,
particularly of a gun, hence the internal diameter of a gun, its
"calibre" (see GUN). A "bore" is also a tiresome, wearying person,
particularly one who persistently harps on one subject, in or out of
season, whatever interest his audience may take in it. This has
generally been taken to be merely a metaphorical use of "bore," to
pierce. The earliest sense, however, in which it is found in English
(1766, in certain letters printed in Jesse's _Life of George Selwyn_) is
that of _ennui_, and a French origin is suggested. The _New English
Dictionary_ conjectures a possible source in Fr. _bourrer_, to stuff,
satiate.

BOREAS, in Greek mythology, a personification of the north wind. He was
described as the son of Astraeus and Eos, brother of Hesperus, Notus and
Zephyrus. His dwelling-place was on Mount Haemus in Thrace, or at
Salmydessus, near the country of the Hyperboreans. He was said t