Bear (n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
Bear (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
Bear (n.) A portable punching machine.
Bear (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
Bear (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
Bear (n.) Alt. of Bere
Bere (n.) Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare).
Bearable (a.) Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable.
Bearberry (n.) A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.
Bearbind (n.) The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).
Beard (n.) The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
Beard (n.) The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
Beard (n.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds
Beard (n.) The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
Beard (n.) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.
Beard (n.) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.
Beard (n.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
Beard (n.) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
Beard (n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
Beard (n.) That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
Beard (n.) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
Beard (n.) An imposition; a trick.
Bearded (imp. & p. p.) of Beard
Bearding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beard
Beard (v. t.) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
Beard (v. t.) To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.
Beard (v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.
Bearded (a.) Having a beard.
Beardie (n.) The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe.
Beardless (a.) Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.
Beardless (a.) Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.
Beardlessness (n.) The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
Bearer (n.) One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
Bearer (n.) Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer.
Bearer (n.) A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant.
Bearer (n.) A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer.
Bearer (n.) One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.
Bearer (n.) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.
Bearherd (n.) A man who tends a bear.
Bearhound (n.) A hound for baiting or hunting bears.
Bearing (n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
Bearing (n.) Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
Bearing (n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection.
Bearing (n.) Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
Bearing (n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
Bearing (n.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.
Bearing (n.) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
Bearing (n.) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
Bearing (n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
Bearing (n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
Bearing (n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.
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.
Bearing (n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.
Bearing (n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
Bearing cloth () A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
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.
Bearish (a.) Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners.
Bearishness (n.) Behavior like that of a bear.
Bearn (n.) See Bairn.
Bear's-breech (n.) See Acanthus, n., 1.
Bear's-breech (n.) The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium)
Bear's-ear (n.) A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf.
Bear's-foot (n.) A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.
Bearskin (n.) The skin of a bear.
Bearskin (n.) A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats.
Bearskin (n.) A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers.
Bear's-paw (n.) A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.
Bearward (n.) A keeper of bears. See Bearherd.
Beast (n.) Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.
Beast (n.) Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.
Beast (n.) As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.
Beast (n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.
Beast (n.) A game at cards similar to loo.
Beast (n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.
Beasthood (n.) State or nature of a beast.
Beastings (n. pl.) See Biestings.
Beastlihead (n.) Beastliness.
Beastlike (a.) Like a beast.
Beastliness (n.) The state or quality of being beastly.
Beastly (a.) Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
Beastly (a.) Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.
Beastly (a.) Abominable; as, beastly weather.
Beat (imp.) of Beat
Beat (p. p.) of Beat
Beaten () of Beat
Beating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beat
Beat (v. t.) To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
Beat (v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash.
Beat (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
Beat (v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
Beat (v. t.) To tread, as a path.
Beat (v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
Beat (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
Beat (v. t.) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
Beat (v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
Beat (v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
Beat (v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
Beat (v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
Beat (v. i.) To be in agitation or doubt.
Beat (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.