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The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

Act of shearing sheep.

from Swear, v. Idle swearing is a cursedness. Chaucer.

Telling tales officiously.

a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption. Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing. Latimer.

The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

Wearing away; superficial waste. Tyndall.

The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.

abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness. W. Black.

Spine-bearing. Gray.

An instrument for measuring the acuteness of the sense of hearing. Itard.

The measuring of the power or extent of hearing.

Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory. Acoustic duct, the auditory duct, or external passage of the ear. -- Acoustic telegraph, a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone. -- Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient the…

In relation to sound or to hearing. Tyndall.

The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.

essions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure.

lso, the most considerable ship of a fleet. Like some mighty admiral, dark and terrible, bearing down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett.

nce; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James adored. Smollett.

Conveying or containing air; air-bearing; as, the windpipe is an aëriferous tube.

Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain.