BPage 107
- English Word Bearer Definition One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.
- English Word Bearer Definition A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.
- English Word Bearherd Definition A man who tends a bear.
- English Word Bearhound Definition A hound for baiting or hunting bears.
- English Word Bearing Definition of Bear
- English Word Bearing Definition The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
- English Word Bearing Definition Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
- English Word Bearing Definition 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.
- English Word Bearing Definition Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
- English Word Bearing Definition The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
- English Word Bearing Definition 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.
- English Word Bearing Definition The portion of a support on which anything rests.
- English Word Bearing Definition Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
- English Word Bearing Definition The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
- English Word Bearing Definition The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
- English Word Bearing Definition Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.
- English Word Bearing Definition 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.
- English Word Bearing Definition The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.
- English Word Bearing Definition The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
- English Word Bearing cloth Definition A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.