2. Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer. Milton.
3. A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant. [India]
4. A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer.
5. (Com.) One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.
6. (Print.) 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.
Bearherd
(Bear"herd`) n. A man who tends a bear.
Bearhound
(Bear"hound`) n. A hound for baiting or hunting bears. Carlyle.
Bearing
(Bear"ing) n.
1. The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
I know him by his bearing.
Shak.
2. Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
3. 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.
But of this frame, the bearings and the ties,
The strong connections, nice dependencies.
Pope.
4. Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
5. The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
[His mother] in travail of his bearing.
R. of Gloucester.
6. (Arch.) (a) 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. (b) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
(c) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
7. (Mach.) (a) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
(b) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
8. (Her.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms — commonly in the pl.
A carriage covered with armorial bearings.
Thackeray.
9. (Naut.) (a) 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. (b) pl. The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. (c) pl. The line of
flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
Ball bearings. See under Ball. — To bring one to his bearings, to bring one to his senses. —
To lose one's bearings, to become bewildered. — To take bearings, to ascertain by the compass
the position of an object; to ascertain the relation of one object or place to another; to ascertain one's
position by reference to landmarks or to the compass; hence to ascertain the condition of things when
one is in trouble or perplexity.
Syn. — Deportment; gesture; mien; behavior; manner; carriage; demeanor; port; conduct; direction; relation; tendency; influence.
