| Bearing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Bear |
| Bearing |
n. |
The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage. |
| Bearing |
n. |
Patient endurance; suffering without complaint. |
| Bearing |
n. |
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. |
| Bearing |
n. |
Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect. |
| Bearing |
n. |
The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing. |
| Bearing |
n. |
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. |
| Bearing |
n. |
The portion of a support on which anything rests. |
| Bearing |
n. |
Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports. |
| Bearing |
n. |
The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal. |
| Bearing |
n. |
The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates. |
| Bearing |
n. |
Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms
commonly in the pl. |
| Bearing |
n. |
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. |
| Bearing |
n. |
The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. |
| Bearing |
n. |
The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast. |
| Bearing cloth |
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A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. |
| Bearing rein |
|
A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up;
called in the United States a checkrein. |
| Bearing ring |
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In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship. |
