v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bear.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. An obsolete spelling of barse.
Word Usage
"On March 29, 1896, in a tube factory on Halsted Street the name bears no connection to Halsted the surgeon in Chicago, Grubbe began to bombard Rose Lee, an elderly woman with breast cancer, with radiation using an improvised X-ray tube."