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A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. Shak.

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.

In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship.

Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.

Behavior like that of a bear.

See Bairn. [Obs.]

The skin of a bear.

A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. [R.] Shak.

To bear; to behave. [Obs.] So did the faery knight himself abear. Spenser.

Behavior. [Obs.] Blackstone.

Behavior. [Obs.] Sir. T. More.

An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.

One who carries the armor or arms of another; an armiger. Judg. ix. 54.

A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.

ves. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate. The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which no eye but his own must look. Carlyle.

, used to frighten children, etc. "Bugaboos to fright ye." Lloyd. But, to the world no bugbear is so great As want of figure and a small estate. Pope. The bugaboo of the liberals is the church pray. S. B. Griffin. The great bugaboo of the birds is the owl. J. Burroughs.

Same as Bugaboo. -- a.

The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition. Milton. Addison.

A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.

A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from certain species of lichen, especially Lecanora tartarea. Ure.