Bear(n.) A bier.
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.
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.
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.
Bear(n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
Bear(n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
Bear(n.) A portable punching machine.
Bear(n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
Bear(n.) Alt. of Bere
Bear(v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
Bear(v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
Bear(v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient.
Bear(v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against.
Bear(v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
Bear(v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?
Bear(v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
Bear(v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
Bear(v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
Bear(v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up.
Bear(v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey.
Bear(v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.
Bear(v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
Bear(v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
Bear(v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
Bear(v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor
Bear(v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
Bear(v. t.) To gain or win.
Bear(v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
Bear(v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward.
Bear(v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
Bear(v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
Bear(v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct.
Bear(v. t.) To behave; to conduct.
Bear(v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with.
Bear(v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
Bearing(n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
Bearing(n.) Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
Bearing(n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection.
Bearing(n.) Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
Bearing(n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
Bearing(n.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.
Bearing(n.) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
Bearing(n.) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
Bearing(n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
Bearing(n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
Bearing(n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.
Bearing(n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W.
Bearing(n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.
Bearing(n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
Bearing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bear
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