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Bearing eggs; oviferous.

) A painter of coats of arms. Crabb. (b) A member of a livery company or guild in London, bearing this name.

An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass

Having or bearing a palm or palms. Paimed deer (Zoöl.), a stag of full growth, bearing palms. See lst Palm, 4.

Bearing palms.

Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore. Pope. His golden sands and palmy wine. Goldsmith.

Bearing a palpus. Kirby.

Bearing panniers. Wordsworth.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillæ; bearing, or covered with, papillæ; papillose.

Covered with, or bearing, papillæ; resembling papillæ; papillate; papillar; papillary.

A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing. Dunglison.

A slip of paper, usually bearing a name, intended to be pasted by the voter, as a substitute, over another name on a printed ballot. [Cant, U.S.]

Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long- suffering.

arried off by Nadir Shah, held by the shahs of Persia (later Iran); -- so called from its bearing a fully expanded peacock's tail done in gems.

Bearing or having feet or legs.

to a mariner's compass, but without magnetic needles, and having two sight vanes by which bearings are taken, esp. such as cannot be taken by the compass.

Bearing feathers or quills.

Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. "Poor, pestiferous creatures begging alms." Evelyn. "Unwholesome and pestiferous occupations." Burke.

Bearing petals.

A bearing representing the head of a dart or javelin, with long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge.