BPage 70
- English Word Bear Definition To endure with patience; to be patient.
- English Word Bear Definition To press; -- with on or upon, or against.
- English Word Bear Definition To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
- English Word Bear Definition To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?
- English Word Bear Definition To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
- English Word Bear Definition To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
- English Word Bear Definition A bier.
- English Word Bear Definition Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
- English Word Bear Definition 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.
- English Word Bear Definition One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
- English Word Bear Definition Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
- English Word Bear Definition A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
- English Word Bear Definition A portable punching machine.
- English Word Bear Definition A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
- English Word Bear Definition To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
- English Word Bear Definition Alt. of Bere
- English Word Bear's-breech Definition See Acanthus, n., 1.
- English Word Bear's-breech Definition The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium)
- English Word Bear's-ear Definition A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf.
- English Word Bear's-foot Definition A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.
- English Word Bear's-paw Definition A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.
- English Word Bearable Definition Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable.
- English Word Bearberry Definition A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.
- English Word Bearbind Definition The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).
- English Word Beard Definition The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
- English Word Beard Definition The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
- English Word Beard Definition The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds
- English Word Beard Definition The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- English Word Beard Definition The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.
- English Word Beard Definition The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.