Definition of bearing

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Bearing (n.) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports..

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Shield :: Shield (n.) The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. See Illust. of Escutcheon.
Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies..
Dibranchiata :: Dibranchiata (n. pl.) An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda..
Trawl :: Trawl (n.) A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter..
Knight :: Knight (n.) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
Pruniferous :: Pruniferous (a.) Bearing plums.
Issuant :: Issuant (a.) Issuing or coming up; -- a term used to express a charge or bearing rising or coming out of another.
Panniered :: Panniered (a.) Bearing panniers.
Checky :: Checky (a.) Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing.
Billet :: Billet (n.) A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.
Dialing :: Dialing (n.) A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor..
Tuberous :: Tuberous (a.) Consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a tuber..
Piliferous :: Piliferous (a.) Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair..
Cruciferous :: Cruciferous (a.) Bearing a cross.
Comportment :: Comportment (n.) Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.
Wake :: Wake (n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil..
Positive :: Positive (a.) Fully assured; confident; certain; sometimes, overconfident; dogmatic; overbearing; -- said of persons..
Polycarpous :: Polycarpous (a.) Bearing fruit repeatedly, or year after year..
Scarry :: Scarry (a.) Bearing scars or marks of wounds.
Rubiaceous :: Rubiaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (Rubiaceae) named after the madder (Rubia tinctoria), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four thousand species. Among them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding peruvian bark and quinine, the madder, the quaker ladies, and the trees bearing the edible fruits called genipap and Sierre Leone peach, besides many plants noted for the beauty or the fragrance of their blossoms..
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