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Any marine fish of the genus Batrachus, having a large, thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance to a toad. The American species (Batrachus tau) is very common in shallow water. Called also oyster fish, and sapo.

A piece of metal intended for currency, and issued by a private party, usually bearing the name of the issuer, and redeemable in lawful money. Also, a coin issued by government, esp. when its use as lawful money is limited and its intrinsic value is much below its nominal value.

The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal. Tolerance of the mint. (Coinage) Same as Remedy of the mint. See under Remedy.

Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; ingulgent.

common among the North American Indians, usually two trailing poles serving as shafts and bearing a platform or net for a load.

A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter. [U. S. & Canada]

n having a straight trunk, sometimes twenty or twenty-five feet high, or even higher, and bearing a cluster of fronds at the top. Most of the existing species are tropical. -- Tree fish (Zoöl.), a California market fish (Sebastichthys serriceps). -- Tree frog. (Zoöl.) (a) Same as Tree toad. (b) Any one of numerous sp…

, as a cross; also, more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing.

Bearing a trident.

Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.

A method of sinking through water-bearing ground, in which the shaft is lined with tubbing and provided with an air lock, work being proceeded with under air pressure.

Parted into three piece; having three parts or pieces; -- said of the field or of a bearing; as, a cross triparted.

e were trotting; trippant; -- said of an animal, as a hart, buck, and the like, used as a bearing.

Without a truce; unforbearing. Two minds in one, and each a truceless guest. H. Brooke.

hell, or triton. -- Trumpet creeper (Bot.), an American climbing plant (Tecoma radicans) bearing clusters of large red trumpet-shaped flowers; -- called also trumpet flower, and in England trumpet ash. -- Trumpet fish. (Zoöl.) (a) The bellows fish. (b) The fistularia. -- Trumpet flower. (Bot.) (a) The trumpet creepe…

An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads.

iage of a gun, mortar, or howitzer, which covers the upper part of the cheek, and forms a bearing under the trunnion. -- Trunnion ring (Gun.), a ring on a cannon next before the trunnions. [R.]

A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass. Fabyan. Bearing a truss of trifles at his back. Spenser.

Producing or bearing tubers.

Consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a tuber. -- Tu"ber*ous*ness, n.