vt to gain or win.
2. bear ·noun a portable punching machine.
3. bear ·noun a bier.
4. bear ·vt to manage, wield, or direct.
5. bear ·vt to support or sustain; to hold up.
6. bear ·vi to suffer, as in carrying a burden.
7. bear ·vt to render or give; to bring forward.
8. bear ·vi to endure with patience; to be patient.
9. bear ·noun ·alt. of bere.
10. bear ·vi to have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
11. bear ·noun metaphorically: a brutal, coarse, or morose person.
12. bear ·vt to carry on, or maintain; to have.
13. bear ·vt to afford; to be to; to supply with.
14. bear ·noun a block covered with coarse matting;
used to scour the deck.
15. bear ·vi to press;
with on or upon, or against.
xvi. bear ·vt to possess and use, as power; to exercise.
xvii. bear ·vt to support and remove or carry; to convey.
xviii. bear ·vt to behave; to conduct.
xix. bear ·vi to produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
xx. bear ·vi to take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
xxi. bear ·vt to sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, ·etc.
xxii. bear ·vi to relate or refer;
with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?.
xxiii. bear ·vt to conduct; to bring;
said of persons.
xxiv. bear ·vt to admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
xxv. bear ·noun a person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
xxvi. bear ·vt to endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
xxvii. bear ·vi to be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears n. by e.
xxviii. bear ·vt to bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
xxix. bear ·vt to possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor.
xxx. bear ·vt to sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
xxxi. bear ·vt to possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
xxxii. bear ·vt to endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
xxxiii. bear ·noun one of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the great bear and the lesser bear, or ursa major and ursa minor.
xxxiv. bear ·noun 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.
xxxv. bear ·noun any species of the genus ursus, and of the closely allied genera. bears are plantigrade carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.