To support; hold up; sustain: as, a pillar or a girder bears the superincumbent weight.To support in movement; carry; convey.To suffer; endure; undergo: as, to bear punishment, blame, etc.To endure the effects of; take the consequences of; be answerable for.To support or sustain without sinking, yielding, shrinking, or suffering injury.To suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change; admit or be capable of.To suffer without resentment or effort to prevent; endure patiently.To sustain, as expense; supply the means of paying.To have, or have a right to; be entitled to; have the rightful use of, as a name, a title, a coat of arms, and the like.To carry, as in show; exhibit; show.To bring forward; render; give; afford: as, to bear testimony.To carry in the mind; entertain or cherish, as love, hatred, envy, respect, etc.To possess, as a property, attribute, or characteristic; have in or on; contain: as, to bear signs or traces; to bear an inscription; the contents which the letter bears.To possess and use, as power; exercise; be charged with; administer: as, to bear sway.To carry on; deal with.To manage; direct; use (what is under the immediate control of one's will).Hence, with a reflexive pronoun, to behave; act in any character: as, he bore himself nobly.To sustain by vital connection; put forth as an outgrowth or product; produce by natural growth: as, plants bear leaves, flowers, and fruit; the heroes borne by ancient Greece.To bring forth in parturition; give birth to, as young; figuratively, give rise or origin to.To conduct; guide; take: as, he bore him off to his quarters.To press; thrust; push; drive; urge: with some word to denote the direction in which the object is driven: as, to bear down a scale; to bear back the crowd.To gain or win: now commonly with away or off; formerly, sometimes, with an indefinite it for the object.In the game of backgammon, to throw off or remove, as the men from the board.To purport; imply; import; state.Nautical, to remove to a distance; keep clear from rubbing against anything: as, to bear off a boatTo gain and carry off: as, he bore off the prize.To defend; support; uphold; second: with a personal object.To confirm; corroborate; establish; justify: with a thing for the object.With a more or less indefinite it for the object: To last through; endure.To enable to endure; render supportable.To conduct or manage.To arrange; contrive; devise.To be capable of supporting or carrying: as, the floor would not bear.To lean; weigh; rest fixedly or burdensomely: as, the sides of two inclining objects bear upon or against one another.To tend; be directed in a certain way, whether with or without violence: as, to bear away; to bear back; to bear in; to bear out to sea; to bear upon; to bear down upon; the fleet bore down upon the enemy.Hence To have reference (to); relate (to); come into practical contact (with); have a bearing: as, legislation bearing on the interests of labor.To be situated as to the point of the compass, with respect to something else: as, the land bore E. N. English from the ship.To suffer, as with pain; endure.To be patient.To produce fruit; be fruitful, as opposed to being barren: as, the tree still continues to bear.To take effect; succeed.To be firm; have fortitude.(nautical), to sail or proceed toward: as, we made all sail and bore up for Hong Kong.n. A large plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammal, of the family Ursidæ, especially of the genus Ursus.n. The Anglo-Australian name of a marsupial quadruped, the koala, Phascolarctos cinereus. See koala.n. The name of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called the Great and the Little Bear.n. A rude, gruff, or uncouth man.n. In exchanges: Stock which one contracts to deliver at a future date, though not in the possession of the seller at the time the contract is made: in the phrases to buy or sell the bear.n. One who sells stocks, grain, provisions, or other commodities neither owned nor possessed by him at the time of selling them, but which he expects to buy at a lower price before the time fixed for making delivery.n. One who endeavors to bring down prices, in order that he may buy cheap: opposed to a bull, who tries to raise the price, that he may sell dear.n. A popular name for certain common caterpillars of the family Arctiidæ, which are densely covered with long hair resembling the fur of a bear.n. In metallurgy, one of the names given to the metallic mass, consisting of more or less malleable iron, sometimes found in the bottom of an iron furnace after it has gone out of blast.n. Nautical, a square block of wood weighted with iron, or a rough mat filled with sand, dragged to and fro on a ship's decks instead of a holystone (which see).n. In metal-working, a portable punching-machine for iron plates.In the stock exchange, to attempt to lower the price of: as, to bear stocks. See bear, n., 5.n. Barley: a word now used chiefly in the north of England and in Scotland for the common four-rowed barley, Hordeum vulgare. The six-rowed kind, H. hexastichon, is called big.n. A pillow-case: usually in composition, pillow-bear.n. The panda, Ælurus fulgens, otherwise called bear-cat.
