Definition of bearing

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Bearing (n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W..

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Seven-thirties :: Seven-thirties (n. pl.) A name given to three several issues of United States Treasury notes, made during the Civil War, in denominations of $50 and over, bearing interest at the rate of seven and three tenths (thirty hundredths) per cent annually. Within a few years they were all redeemed or funded..
Important :: Important (v. t.) Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty.
Disciferous :: Disciferous (a.) Bearing disks.
Infrugiferous :: Infrugiferous (a.) Not bearing fruit; not fructiferous.
Uniflorous :: Uniflorous (a.) Bearing one flower only; as, a uniflorous peduncle..
Yucca :: Yucca (n.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms..
Chymiferous :: Chymiferous (a.) Bearing or containing chyme.
Hollyhock :: Hollyhock (n.) A species of Althaea (A. rosea), bearing flowers of various colors; -- called also rose mallow..
Hyacinth :: Hyacinth (n.) A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety..
Palinurus :: Palinurus (n.) An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass.
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
Comportment :: Comportment (n.) Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.
Agnus Dei :: Agnus Dei () A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag.
Golden-rod :: Golden-rod (n.) A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago..
Lanigerous :: Lanigerous (a.) Bearing or producing wool.
Caboched :: Caboched (a.) Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; -- said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing..
Nasicornous :: Nasicornous (a.) Bearing a horn, or horns, on the nose, as the rhinoceros..
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..
Talebearing :: Talebearing (a.) Telling tales officiously.
Polygamous :: Polygamous (a.) Belonging to the Polygamia; bearing both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.
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