- (v.t.) To gain or win.
- (n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse or morose person.
- (v.t.) To manage, wield or direct.
- (v.t.) To render or give; to bring forward.
- (v.i.) To have a certain meaning, intent or effect.
- (v.i.) To endure with patience; to be patient.
- (v.i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?.
- (v.t.) To behave; to conduct.
- (v.t.) To endeavor to depress the price of or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
- (v.t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury or change.
- (v.t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor.
- (v.i.) To press; -- with on or upon or against.
- (n.) A bier.
- (v.t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with.
- (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
- (n.) A portable punching machine.
- (n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
- (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
- (v.i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
- (v.t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.
- (v.t.) To support or sustain; to hold up.
- (v.t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey.
- (n.) Alternative of Bere.
- (v.t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
- (n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
- (v.i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
- (n.) 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.
- (v.t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
- (v.t.) To sustain or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
- (v.t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
- (v.t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
- (v.t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge or name.
- (v.i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
- (v.i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
- (v.t.) To carry on or maintain; to have.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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