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Bearing ships; capable of floating vessels. [R.] Blount.

son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.

known also as Chili saltpeter. -- Niter bush (Bot.), a genus (Nitraria) of thorny shrubs bearing edible berries, and growing in the saline plains of Asia and Northern Africa.

Bearing niter; yielding, or containing, niter.

Like a nut either in structure or in being indehiscent; bearing one-seeded nutlike fruits. [Written also nucumentaceous.]

Bearing, or producing, nuts.

a plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus rotundus, var. Hydra), which has slender rootstocks bearing small, nutlike tubers, by which the plant multiplies exceedingly, especially in cotton fields. -- Nut lock, a device, as a metal plate bent up at the corners, to prevent a nut from becoming unscrewed, as by jarring. -- N…

Bearing or yielding an odor; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; fragrant; as, odoriferous spices, particles, fumes, breezes. Milton. -- O`dor*if"er*ous*ly, adv. --O`dor*if"er*ous*ness, n.

All-bearing; producing all kinds.

Bearing an operculum.

especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees. Orchard grass (Bot.), a tall coarse grass (Dactylis glomerata), introduced into the United States from Europe. It grows usually in shady places, and is of value for forage and hay. -- Orcha…

A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary. In ordinary. (a) In actual and constant service; statedly atte…

To define the position of, in relation to the orient or east; hence, to ascertain the bearings of.

of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.

A bearing, in the form of a fillet, round the shield, within, but at some distance from, the border.

A stone of various colors bearing the figures of birds.

A suffix denoting that the element indicated by the name bearing it, has a valence lower than that denoted by the termination -ic; as, nitrous, sulphurous, etc., as contrasted with nitric, sulphuric, etc.

Excessively fertile; bearing rank or noxious growths. [Obs.] "Overbattle grounds." Hooker.

t by which it is supported; as, the overhang of a shaft; i. e., its projection beyond its bearing.

Egg-bearing; -- applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched.