Definition of bearing

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Bearing (n.) Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.

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Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To release from a post, station, or duty; to put another in place of, or to take the place of, in the bearing of any burden, or discharge of any duty..
Domineering :: Domineering (a.) Ruling arrogantly; overbearing.
Arrogance :: Arrogance (n.) The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption..
Comportment :: Comportment (n.) Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.
Guelderrose'' :: Guelderrose' (n.) A cultivated variety of a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), bearing large bunches of white flowers; -- called also snowball tree..
Hamulose :: Hamulose (a.) Bearing a small hook at the end.
Bearing Cloth :: Bearing cloth () A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
Splendor :: Splendiferous (a.) Splendor-bearing; splendid.
Stigmatic :: Stigmatic (n.) A person bearing the wounds on the hands and feet resembling those of Jesus Christ caused by His crucifixion; -- for true stigmantics the wounds are supposed to have been caused miraculously, as a sign of great holiness..
Premier :: Premier (a.) Most ancient; -- said of the peer bearing the oldest title of his degree.
Hermes :: Hermes (n.) Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Ter
Circumferentor :: Circumferentor (n.) A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360¡, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint..
Castanea :: Castanea (n.) A genus of nut-bearing trees or shrubs including the chestnut and chinquapin.
Operculiferous :: Operculiferous (a.) Bearing an operculum.
Coniferous :: Coniferous (a.) Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress..
Blackthorn :: Blackthorn (n.) A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe..
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
Pomiferous :: Pomiferous (a.) Bearing fruits, or excrescences, more or less resembling an apple..
Breeding :: Breeding (n.) The act or process of generating or bearing.
Baston :: Baston (n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court..
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