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To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear. Shak.

The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches.

To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively. Those that behaved themselves manfully. 2 Macc. ii. 21.

pattern originated in the neighborhood of Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.

,n.See Bear, barley. [Scot.]

To bear or produce berries.

Something especially hated or dreaded; a bugbear.

To avoid; to take care of; to have a care for. [Obs.] "Priest, beware your beard." Shak. To wish them beware the son. Milton.

Bearing fruit twice a year.

Bearing two flowers; two-flowered.

Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind. "Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg." New English Dict.

letter sent by an agent or other person to a merchant, desiring him to give credit to the bearer for goods or money. -- Bill of divorce, in the Jewish law, a writing given by the husband to the wife, by which the marriage relation was dissolved. Jer. iii. 8. -- Bill of entry, a written account of goods entered at the…

A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.

One of the smaller vital units of a cell, the bearer of vitality and heredity. See Pangen, in Supplement.

A shrub (Prunus Padus ) found in Northern and Central Europe. It bears small black cherries.

A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.

A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.

A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.

of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure. Let me bear the blame forever. Gen. xiiii. 9.

noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel. Seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind. Gen. xii. 6.