Word Meanings - BORNE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.
Related words: (words related to BORNE)
- SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - CARRIBOO
See CARIBOU - SUPPORTATION
Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon. - CARRIABLE
Capable of being carried. - SUPPORTFUL
Abounding with support. Chapman. - CARRIAGEABLE
Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin. - SUPPORTLESS
Having no support. Milton. - CONVEYER
1. One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers. 2. One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief. Shak. - CARRIAGE
carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and - CONVEYANCER
One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. Burrill. - CONVEYOR
A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope. - CARRION
1. The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food. They did eat the dead carrions. Spenser. 2. A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach. "Old feeble carrions." Shak. - DEFRAYAL
The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs. - DEFRAY
LL. fredum, fridum, expense, fine by which an offender obtained peace from his sovereign, or more likely, atoned for an offense against the 1. To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc. - CONVEY
conviare, fr. L. con- + via way. See Viaduct, Voyage, and cf. 1. To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport. I will convey them by sea in fleats. 1 Kings v. 9. Convey me to my bed, then to my grave. Shak. 2. To cause to pass from - SUPPORT
1. The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining. 2. That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind. 3. That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, - SUPPORTER
A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South. - DEFRAYMENT
Payment of charges. - SUPPORTMENT
Support. Sir H. Wotton. - CARRICK
A carack. See Carack. Carrick bend , a kind of knot, used for bending together hawsers or other ropes. -- Carrick bitts , the bitts which support the windlass. Totten. - RECONVEY
1. To convey back or to the former place; as, to reconvey goods. 2. To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate. - SCARRING
A scar; a mark. We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here. Tyndall. - RECARRIAGE
Act of carrying back. - INSUPPORTABLE
Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv. - UNSUPPORTABLE
Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port"a*bly, adv. - MISCARRIAGEABLE
Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. Bp. Hall. - GINNY-CARRIAGE
A small, strong carriage for conveying materials on a railroad. - RECONVEYANCE
Act of reconveying.