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manently charged with the performance of this office for his master. "I was the king's cupbearer." Neh. i. 11.

To bear down; to depress.

An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural. [Scot.] "Your forbears of old." Sir W. Scott.

The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience. He soon shall findForbearance no acquittance ere day end. Milton.

Forbearing. [R.] Carlyle.

One who forbears. Tusser.

Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering. -- For*bear"ing*ly, adv.

An ancestor. See Forbear.

niceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.

An old man. Shak.

To carry improperly; to carry (one's self) wrongly; to misbehave. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress. The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war. Bacon. Overborne with weight the Cyprians fell. Dryden. They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who goes out of…

Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent. --O`ver*bear"ing*ly, adv. -- O`ver*bear"ing*ness, n.

One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.

A bearing containing friction rollers.

A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church. [Eng.] Nares.

The white bear.

A green seaweed (Cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts.

One who, or that which, carries a shield.

r maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief. Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father, did their best to inflame her resentment. Macaulay.