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Bear
BEAR, v.t. pret.bore; pp. born,borne. [L. fero, pario, porto. The primary sense is to throw out, to bring forth, or in general, to thrust or drive along. ]
1. To support; to sustain; as, to bear a weight or burden.
2. To carry; to convey; to support and remove from place to place; as, "they bear him upon the shoulder;", "the eagle beareth them on her wings."
3. To wear; to bear as a mark of authority or distinction; as, to bear a sword, a badge, a name; to bear arms in a coat.
4. To keep afloat; as, the water bears a ship.
5. To support or sustain without sinking or yielding; to endure; as, a man can bear severe pain or calamity; or to sustain with proportionate strength, and without injury; as, a man may bear stronger food or drink.
6. To entertain; to carry in the mind; as, to bear a great love for a friend; to bear inveterate hatred to gaming.
7. To suffer; to undergo; as, to bear punishment.
8. To suffer without resentment, or interference to prevent; to have patience; as, to bear neglect or indignities.
9. To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence,injury,or change; as, to give words the most favorable interpretation they will bear.
10. To bring forth or produce, as the fruit of plants, or the young of animals; as, to bear apples; to bear children.
11. To give birth to, or be the native place of.
Here dwelt the man divine whom Samos bore.
12. To possess and use as power; to exercise; as, to bear sway.
13. To gain or win.
Some think to bear it by speaking a great word. [Not now used. The phrase now used is, to bear away.]
14. To carry on, or maintain; to have; as, to bear a part in conversation.
15. To show or exhibit; to relate; as, to bear testimony or witness. This seems to imply utterance, like the Latin fero, to relate or utter.
16. To sustain the effect, or be answerable for; as, to bear the blame.
17. To sustain, as expense; to supply the means of paying; as, to bear the charges, that is, to pay the expenses.
18. To be the object of.
Let me but bear your love, and I'll bear your cares.
19. To behave; to act in any character; as,"hath he borne himself penitent?"
20. To remove, or to endure the effects of; and hence to give satisfaction for.
He shall bear their iniquities. Isa 53. Heb 9.
To bear the infirmities of the weak, to bear one another's burdens, is to be charitable towards their faults, to sympathize with them, and to aid them in distress.
To bear off, is to restrain; to keep from approach; and in seamanship, to remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against any thing; as, to bear off a blow; to bear off a boat; also, to carry away; as, to bear off stolen goods.
To bear down, is to impel or urge; to overthrow or crush by force; as, to bear down an enemy.
To bear down upon, to press to overtake; to make all sail to come up with.
To bear hard, is to press or urge.
Cesar doth bear me hard.
To bear on, is to press against; also to carry forward, to press, incite or animate.
Confidence hath borne thee on.
To bear through, is to conduct or manage; as,"to bear through the consulship." B.Jonson. Also, to maintain or support to the end; as, religion will bear us through the evils of life.
To bear out, is to maintain and support to the end; to defend to the last.
Company only can bear a man out in an ill thing.
To bear up, to support; to keep from falling.
Religious hope bears up the mind under sufferings.
To bear up, to keep afloat.
To bear a body. A color is said to bear a body in painting, when it is capable of being ground so fine, and mixed so entirely with the oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same color. To bear date, is to have the mark of time when written or executed; as, a letter or bond bears date, Jan.6,1811.
To bear a price,is to have a certain price. In common mercantile language,it often signifies or implies, to bear a good or high price.
To bear in hand, to amuse with false pretenses; to deceive.
I believe this phrase is obsolete, or never used in America.
To bear a hand, in seamanship, is to make haste, be quick.
BEAR, v.i. To suffer,as with pain.
But man is born to bear.
This is unusual in prose; and though admissible,is rendered intransitive, merely by the omission of pain, or other word expressive of evil.
1. To be patient; to endure.
I cannot, cannot bear.
2. To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
This age to blossom, and the next to bear.
Here fruit must be understood.
3. To take effect; to succeed; as, to bring matters to bear.
4. To act in any character.
Instruct me how I may bear like a true friar.
5. To be situated as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bore E,N.E. from the ship.
6. To bear away, in navigation, is to change the course of a ship, when close hauled, or sailing with a side wind, and make her run before the wind. To bear up, is used in a like sense, from the act of bearing up the helm to the windward.
Hence, perhaps, in other cases, the expression may be used to denote tending or moving from.
7. To bear down, is to drive or tend to; to approach with a fair wind; as, the fleet bore down upon the enemy.
8. To bear in, is to run or tend towards; as, a ship bears in with the land; opposed to bear off, or keeping at a greater distance.
9. To bear up, is to tend or move towards; as, to bear up to one another; also, to be supported; to have fortitude; to be firm; not to sink; as, to bear up under afflictions.
10. To bear upon, or against, is to lean
upon or against; to act on as weight or force, in any direction, as a column upon its base, or the sides of two inclining objects against each other.
11. To bear against, to approach for attack or seizure; as, "a lion bears against his prey."
12. To bear upon, to act upon; as, the artillery bore upon the center; or to be pointed or situated so as to affect; as, to bring or plant guns so as to bear upon a fort, or a ship.
13. To bear with, to endure what is unpleasing; to be indulgent; to forbear to resent, oppose, or punish.
Reason would I should bear with you. Acts 18.
Shall not God avenge his elect, though he bear long with them? Luke 18.
bear appears in definitions for these words:
Abased Abear Abearance Abide Abintestate Abyss Acacia Acanthus Accent Actionable Adossed Afford Affording Against Aggrieve Alembdar Algebraic Aliferous Alkekengi Alkussa Allioth Analogical Analogically Analogism Analogous Ancient Androgynous Angel Anguifer Annulet Answer Antarctic Antheriferous Antitype Anvil Apostolics Aquarius Archivault Arctation Arcturus Arise Arista Armigerous Arrack Asportation Astriferous Astrigerous At Attest Auricula Average Away Awm Awnless Awny B Baccifferous Bagre Bald Ballet Bank-bill Bannered Bar Barb Barbate Barbed Bare Basalt Beam Bear Bear-baiting Bear-cloth Bear-garden Bear-whelp Beard Bearded Bearding Beardless Beardlessness Bearer Bearherd Bearing Bearing-cloth Bearish Bearlike Bearward Bell Beneath Berry Berth Bier Biferous Biflorous Billet Biparous Bird-eye Birth Blacksmith Blame Blockade Blush Blushing Body Bog Bonduc Bore Born Borne Both Bow-bearer Branch Brankursine Breed Breeding Bring Bringing Brokenwind Brook Broom-corn Brow Browbeating Buckle Buckthorn Buoyant Buoyrope Burbot Bushy Butternut C Cacao Calif Calumnious Camel Camphor-tree Can Canvas Capillary Car Carboncle Carica Caricature Carriage Carry Carrying Cashew-nut Cavil Celliferous Celluliferous Centaury Change Chaplet Charge Charless-wain Cheap Check Chess Chestnut-tree Child-bearing Childing Cipher Circumfer Civet-cat Clandestine Classically Clove-gilly-glower Cocciferous Comely Comet Commandning Commend Comment Commodore Common Commons Company Compare Compel Comport Compound Compurgator Con Conceive Concernment Concession Conchiferous Condemnatory Condor Confer Congeries Congest Coniferous Consideration Constellation Convey Conveyance Convoy Corner Cornet Cornflag Corniculate Cornigerous Corymbiferous Cotton-plant Cotton-shrub Courage Crab-tree Credence Crescent Cross Cross-bearer Crow-berry Crown Cruciferous Cryophorus Cub Culmiferous Cupriferous Curb Cut Cynarctomachy Cynosure Date-tree Dear Defer Deferent Defiatory Defray Deiparous Delate Delation Denationalize Dentil Depend Dependence Depose Deposing Detest Differ Digest Dimissory Discrete Divine Dogbrier Dolorous Dorsiferous Dorsiparous Dragon Dragoon Draw Eagle Eglantine Eld Electrophor Enable Endurance Endure Endurer Enduring Ensiferous Entomolite Envenom Ephipora Epiphyllospermous Equanimity Essence Examine Exceed Exchequer Export Express Fallowness Fardel Fate Fateful February Female Feracious Ferine Ferret Ferry Fertile Fetch Fetiferous Fierceness Filial Fill Fimble-hemp Firestone Fix Fixed Flaccidness Flaunt Flinch Floriferous Flower-de-lis Foliferous Foot Fortitude Fret Frondiferous Fructed Fructiferous Fructify Frugiferous Fruitbearing Fruitful Fruitless Fusil Galloper Garlicpear-tree Gemmiparous Geology Gerent Gerund Gesticulate Gesture Glandiferous Glanduliferous Glume Go Gonfalon Gorged Gorse Grisly Groggy Guide Gun-carriage Gymnosperm Hand Harmonical Hawthorn Hazel Heavily Hederiferous Helmed Herald Herein Herse Herself Hobble Hoist Hold Hollyhock Holstered Hope Hotmouthed Hug Hunt Hydrangea Ibex Ill Illation Image Impatience Impatient Impatiently Impend Impertinent Impious Import Importance Important Importing Importunate Importune Impose Infer Infirmity Ingest Ingraft Inscriptive Interest Interfere Intolerable Inveigh Jasmin Jealousy Jews-ear Johannes Joke Jonquil Junior Juniper Knight Lactiferous Lacunous Land Laniferous Lanigerous Latitude Laurifferous Leather-seller Let Lift Lightly Lip Longsuffering Loop Loss Lupine Lying Male Mammifer Man Manchineel Mandatary Mangostan Mar Marigold Martyr Mastless Meanly Messager Metal Mindful Mockery Moderation Moral Motto Mouth Multiparous Muslin Muzzle Narrows Nectariferous New Nickar-tree Notwheat Nuciferous Nutriture Oblate Oblation Obsequious Odoriferous Of Omniferous Once Opportune Orange Orthodoxy Ought Out Outbalance Outbrave Outbrazen Outface Outscorn Outtongue Overbear Overbearing Overpress Oversway Overwhelm Paca Pack Palmer Palmiferous Palmy Paraselene Pardon Part Partnership Parturiate Patience Patron Patulous Per Periphery Pest Phyllophorous Pillage Pinch Pine Piony Pistilliferous Plerophory Pole Poling Polygam Pomiferous Populousness Port Post Post-note Prefer Pregravate Prelude Presence Press Pretty Probation Produce Productive Proffer Proportion Proportional Prospective Prosper Proud Province Prune Pruniferous Puberty Pubescent Puerperal Puerperous Puncheon Push Put Pyrophorus Quagmire Quarter Racemiferous Range Rap Rationality Ravish Razor Rebatement Rebuke Rebus Receive Red-berried Refer Reflection Rejoice Reluctance Remember Remembrancer Report Representative Reproof Reprove Resemblance Resemble Rifle Rifler Rival Rudeness Rugged Run Saccade Saliferous Salsify Sanicle Savageness Scape Scape-goat Sceptered Scrutiny Sea-bear Sea-boat Seal Series Set Shadow Shale Shammy Share Shave Sheild Ship-building Signature Significant Singe Sit Sleeper Slump Smart Snow-drop Society Soft Soil Spicknel Spiniferous Spring Spurious Squamigerous Staminiferous Stamp Stand Standard Standard-bearer Stem Sterile Stiff Stigmatical Stock Stomach Stranger Stress Stretch Strong Sublimation Subserve Suffer Sufferance Suffering Support Supporting Survey Suspension Sustain Sustaining Sway Sword-bearer Take Talebearer Talent Tallow Tambor Tamely Tameness Tan Teasel Tergifetous Test Testifier Testify Testifying Thole Three-flowered Thuriferous Ticket Tippling-house Tolerance Torch-bearer Touse Trade Train-bearer Translate Transport Transporting Triflorous Triplicate Triumph Truth Tulip-tree Turioniferous Two-flowered Ugly Umbel Umbellate Umbelliferous Unasked Unbacked Unbearded Unbearing Under Undergo Underprop Uniflorous Uniparous Unlicked Up Upbear Ursa Ursiform Ursine Vari Vasculiferous Veliferous Verge Vermiparous Vert Verticillate Vessel Vexillary Vice Viviparous Volume Vouch Waft Wag Ward Water-bearer Weak Wear Wearing Weigh Wheat Whelp Whirled White-bear White-clover Winter-crop Witness Witnessing Z Zoophoric
Abased Abear Abearance Abide Abintestate Abyss Acacia Acanthus Accent Actionable Adossed Afford Affording Against Aggrieve Alembdar Algebraic Aliferous Alkekengi Alkussa Allioth Analogical Analogically Analogism Analogous Ancient Androgynous Angel Anguifer Annulet Answer Antarctic Antheriferous Antitype Anvil Apostolics Aquarius Archivault Arctation Arcturus Arise Arista Armigerous Arrack Asportation Astriferous Astrigerous At Attest Auricula Average Away Awm Awnless Awny B Baccifferous Bagre Bald Ballet Bank-bill Bannered Bar Barb Barbate Barbed Bare Basalt Beam Bear Bear-baiting Bear-cloth Bear-garden Bear-whelp Beard Bearded Bearding Beardless Beardlessness Bearer Bearherd Bearing Bearing-cloth Bearish Bearlike Bearward Bell Beneath Berry Berth Bier Biferous Biflorous Billet Biparous Bird-eye Birth Blacksmith Blame Blockade Blush Blushing Body Bog Bonduc Bore Born Borne Both Bow-bearer Branch Brankursine Breed Breeding Bring Bringing Brokenwind Brook Broom-corn Brow Browbeating Buckle Buckthorn Buoyant Buoyrope Burbot Bushy Butternut C Cacao Calif Calumnious Camel Camphor-tree Can Canvas Capillary Car Carboncle Carica Caricature Carriage Carry Carrying Cashew-nut Cavil Celliferous Celluliferous Centaury Change Chaplet Charge Charless-wain Cheap Check Chess Chestnut-tree Child-bearing Childing Cipher Circumfer Civet-cat Clandestine Classically Clove-gilly-glower Cocciferous Comely Comet Commandning Commend Comment Commodore Common Commons Company Compare Compel Comport Compound Compurgator Con Conceive Concernment Concession Conchiferous Condemnatory Condor Confer Congeries Congest Coniferous Consideration Constellation Convey Conveyance Convoy Corner Cornet Cornflag Corniculate Cornigerous Corymbiferous Cotton-plant Cotton-shrub Courage Crab-tree Credence Crescent Cross Cross-bearer Crow-berry Crown Cruciferous Cryophorus Cub Culmiferous Cupriferous Curb Cut Cynarctomachy Cynosure Date-tree Dear Defer Deferent Defiatory Defray Deiparous Delate Delation Denationalize Dentil Depend Dependence Depose Deposing Detest Differ Digest Dimissory Discrete Divine Dogbrier Dolorous Dorsiferous Dorsiparous Dragon Dragoon Draw Eagle Eglantine Eld Electrophor Enable Endurance Endure Endurer Enduring Ensiferous Entomolite Envenom Ephipora Epiphyllospermous Equanimity Essence Examine Exceed Exchequer Export Express Fallowness Fardel Fate Fateful February Female Feracious Ferine Ferret Ferry Fertile Fetch Fetiferous Fierceness Filial Fill Fimble-hemp Firestone Fix Fixed Flaccidness Flaunt Flinch Floriferous Flower-de-lis Foliferous Foot Fortitude Fret Frondiferous Fructed Fructiferous Fructify Frugiferous Fruitbearing Fruitful Fruitless Fusil Galloper Garlicpear-tree Gemmiparous Geology Gerent Gerund Gesticulate Gesture Glandiferous Glanduliferous Glume Go Gonfalon Gorged Gorse Grisly Groggy Guide Gun-carriage Gymnosperm Hand Harmonical Hawthorn Hazel Heavily Hederiferous Helmed Herald Herein Herse Herself Hobble Hoist Hold Hollyhock Holstered Hope Hotmouthed Hug Hunt Hydrangea Ibex Ill Illation Image Impatience Impatient Impatiently Impend Impertinent Impious Import Importance Important Importing Importunate Importune Impose Infer Infirmity Ingest Ingraft Inscriptive Interest Interfere Intolerable Inveigh Jasmin Jealousy Jews-ear Johannes Joke Jonquil Junior Juniper Knight Lactiferous Lacunous Land Laniferous Lanigerous Latitude Laurifferous Leather-seller Let Lift Lightly Lip Longsuffering Loop Loss Lupine Lying Male Mammifer Man Manchineel Mandatary Mangostan Mar Marigold Martyr Mastless Meanly Messager Metal Mindful Mockery Moderation Moral Motto Mouth Multiparous Muslin Muzzle Narrows Nectariferous New Nickar-tree Notwheat Nuciferous Nutriture Oblate Oblation Obsequious Odoriferous Of Omniferous Once Opportune Orange Orthodoxy Ought Out Outbalance Outbrave Outbrazen Outface Outscorn Outtongue Overbear Overbearing Overpress Oversway Overwhelm Paca Pack Palmer Palmiferous Palmy Paraselene Pardon Part Partnership Parturiate Patience Patron Patulous Per Periphery Pest Phyllophorous Pillage Pinch Pine Piony Pistilliferous Plerophory Pole Poling Polygam Pomiferous Populousness Port Post Post-note Prefer Pregravate Prelude Presence Press Pretty Probation Produce Productive Proffer Proportion Proportional Prospective Prosper Proud Province Prune Pruniferous Puberty Pubescent Puerperal Puerperous Puncheon Push Put Pyrophorus Quagmire Quarter Racemiferous Range Rap Rationality Ravish Razor Rebatement Rebuke Rebus Receive Red-berried Refer Reflection Rejoice Reluctance Remember Remembrancer Report Representative Reproof Reprove Resemblance Resemble Rifle Rifler Rival Rudeness Rugged Run Saccade Saliferous Salsify Sanicle Savageness Scape Scape-goat Sceptered Scrutiny Sea-bear Sea-boat Seal Series Set Shadow Shale Shammy Share Shave Sheild Ship-building Signature Significant Singe Sit Sleeper Slump Smart Snow-drop Society Soft Soil Spicknel Spiniferous Spring Spurious Squamigerous Staminiferous Stamp Stand Standard Standard-bearer Stem Sterile Stiff Stigmatical Stock Stomach Stranger Stress Stretch Strong Sublimation Subserve Suffer Sufferance Suffering Support Supporting Survey Suspension Sustain Sustaining Sway Sword-bearer Take Talebearer Talent Tallow Tambor Tamely Tameness Tan Teasel Tergifetous Test Testifier Testify Testifying Thole Three-flowered Thuriferous Ticket Tippling-house Tolerance Torch-bearer Touse Trade Train-bearer Translate Transport Transporting Triflorous Triplicate Triumph Truth Tulip-tree Turioniferous Two-flowered Ugly Umbel Umbellate Umbelliferous Unasked Unbacked Unbearded Unbearing Under Undergo Underprop Uniflorous Uniparous Unlicked Up Upbear Ursa Ursiform Ursine Vari Vasculiferous Veliferous Verge Vermiparous Vert Verticillate Vessel Vexillary Vice Viviparous Volume Vouch Waft Wag Ward Water-bearer Weak Wear Wearing Weigh Wheat Whelp Whirled White-bear White-clover Winter-crop Witness Witnessing Z Zoophoric
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