n. One who bears, carries, or sustains; a carrier; specifically, one who carries anything as the attendant of another: as, St. Christopher, or the Christ-bearer (the meaning of the name); a sword-bearer, an armor-bearer, a palanquin-bearer, etc.n. One who carries a body to the grave; a pall-bearer.n. In India: A palanquin-carrier. A domestic servant who has charge of his master's clothes, furniture, etc.n. In banking and com., one who holds or presents for payment a check or order for money, payment of which is not limited by the drawer to a specified individual or firm. Checks payable to bearer need no indorsement.n. One who wears anything, as a badge or sword; a wearer.n. In old law, one who bears down or oppresses others by vexatiously assisting a third party in maintaining a suit against them; a maintainor.n. Any part of a structure or machine that serves as a support to some other part A support for the fire-bars of a furnace. The support of the puppets in a lathe. plural In a rolling-mill, the housings or standards in which the roller-gudgeons turn. One of the strips which extend over a molding-trough and serve to support the fiask.n. In printing: A strip of wood or metal, type-high, put in any exposed place in a form of type or on a press, for the purpose of bearing off impression and preventing injury to type or woodcuts. plural Type-high pieces of metal placed in the very open spaces and over the heads of pages to be stereotyped, and also type-high strips of metal placed around pages or forms to be electrotyped, to prevent injury to the face of the type or the plates in the subsequent processes, and cut away from the plates before printing.n. In heraldry, a supporter.n. A roll of padding forming a kind of bustle, formerly worn by women to support and distend their skirts “at their setting on at the bodies.”n. In an organ, one of the thin pieces of wood attached to the upper side of a sound-board, to form guides for the register-slides which command the openings in the top of a wind-chest leading to the pipes of the separate systems of pipes which form the stops.n. A tree or plant that yields fruit or flowers.n. In shipbuilding, a support or foundation in the interior of a vessel for engines or boilers: usually in the plural: as, engine-bearers, boiler-bearers.n. A person, usually a woman or girl, who formerly carried coal in baskets from the workings to the shaft, and in many cases up the ladders to the surface. The bearer was usually the miner's wife or daughter.n. In geometry, a system of costraight points is called a range, of which the straight is the bearer. A system of copunctal straights is called a pencil, of which the intersection point is the bearer.n. plural In mining, pieces of timber 3 or 4 feet longer than the breadth of a shaft, which are fixed into the solid rock at the sides at certain intervals: used as foundations for sets of timber.
