Word Meanings - ASTRIFEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bearing stars. Blount.

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• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• BEAR'S-BREECH
  See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
• BEAR'S-EAR
  A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf.
• BEARDLESSNESS
  The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
• BEARABLE
  Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv.
• BEAR
  produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. gebären, Goth. baíran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. bära, Dan. bære, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. , OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. 1. To support or sustain; to hold
• BEARDIE
  The bearded loach of Europe.
• BEARDLESS
  1. Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful. 2. Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.
• BEARING CLOTH
  A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. Shak.
• BEARDED
  Having a beard. "Bearded fellow." Shak. "Bearded grain." Dryden. Bearded vulture, Bearded eagle. See Lammergeir. -- Bearded tortoise. See Matamata.
• 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.
• BEARBIND
  The bindweed .
• BEAR'S-FOOT
  A species of hellebore , with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.
• BEAR-TRAP DAM
  A kind of movable dam, in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at the top when raised and folding down one over the other when lowered, for deepening shallow parts in a river.
• BEARBERRY
  A trailing plant of the heath family , having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.
• BEARISHNESS
  Behavior like that of a bear.
• BEARN
  See BAIRN
• BEARING
  Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. A carriage covered with armorial bearings. Thackeray. The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.;
• BEAR'S-PAW
  A large bivalve shell of the East Indies , often used as an ornament.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• BLUEBEARD
  The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
• ANT-BEAR
  An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.
• GRAYBEARD
  An old man. Shak.
• MISBEAR
  To carry improperly; to carry wrongly; to misbehave. Chaucer.
• FORKBEARD
  A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard.
• PALLBEARER
  One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
• UNDERBEARER
  One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall.
• ABEARANCE
  Behavior. Blackstone.
• RUSH-BEARING
  A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church. Nares.
• TALEBEARER
  One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief. Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father, did their best to inflame her resentment. Macaulay.
• TREEBEARD
  A pendulous branching lichen ; -- so called from its resemblance to hair.
• FOREBEAR
  An ancestor. See Forbear.