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A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually above it, or separately as an ornament for plate, liveries, and the like. It is a relic of the ancient cognizance. See Cognizance, 4.

Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft. Gray.

ail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc.

Bearing hair; hairy. [R.]

A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross. [Obs.]

To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum. Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise. C. Bront

A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.

Bearing a crosier.

A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above.

See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown jewels, the jewels appertaining to the sovereign while wearing the crown. [Eng.] "She pawned and set to sale the crown jewels." Milton. -- Crown land, land belonging to the crown, that is, to the sovereign. -- Crown law, the law which governs criminal prosecutions. [Eng.] -- Crown la…

Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing glory crowned. Milton.

Bearing a cross.

Bearing the cross; marked with the figure of a cross. Sir. T. Browne.

Wearing a cuirass.

Having or bearing cupeles; cupuliferous.

esembling, the family of plants ot which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.

ed. Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels.

The valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stroke, so as to allow the remainder of the stroke to be made by the expansive force of the steam already let in. See Expansion gear, under Expansion.

Having the nature of a cyme, or derived from a cyme; bearing, or pertaining to, a cyme or cymes.

A punishment sometimes used by the ancients, consisting in the besmearing of the criminal with honey, and exposing him to insects. It is still in use among some Oriental nations.