English English Dictionary

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.

Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.

The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.

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.

The portion of a support on which anything rests.

Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.

The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.

The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.

Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.

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.

The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.

A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.

A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.

Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners.

Behavior like that of a bear.

See Bairn.

The skin of a bear.

A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats.

A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers.

A keeper of bears. See Bearherd.