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To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.

Existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt.

Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade. Fur seal (Zoöl.) one of several species of seals of the genera Callorhinus and Arclocephalus, inhabiting the North Pacific and the Antarctic oceans. They have a coat of fine and soft fur which is highly prized. The northern fur seal (Callor…

A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.

The military force of the whole nation, consisting of all men able to bear arms. The national fyrd or militia. J. R. Green.

Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving. 'T is Cinna; I do know him by his gait. Shak.

Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer. That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds. Shak. The gay, the wise, the gallant, and the grave. Waller.

In the alternation of generations in plants, that generation or phase which bears sex organs. In the lower plants, as the algæ, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually m…

has a strong smell of garlic. -- Garlic pear tree, a tree in Jamaica (Cratæva gynandra), bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste.

eans of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca. [Written also Gasteropoda.]

A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford Univ.] Conybeare.

Bearing or producing gemmules or buds.

n of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.

One who bears arms, but has no title.

Bearing; carrying. [Obs.] Bailey.

se alloy packfong. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. -- German steel (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. -- German text (Typog.), a character resembling moder…

A suffix signifying bearing, producing; as, calcigerous; dentigerous.

Gesture; bearing; deportment. [Archaic] Through his heroic grace and honorable gest. Spenser.

Bearing within; laden; burdened; pregnant. [R.] "Clouds gestant with heat." Mrs. Browning.

machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw. Gib and key, or Gib and cotter (Steam Engine), the fixed wedge or gib, and the driving wedge,key, or cotter, used for tightening the strap which hold…