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oman. Collection of Records (1642). A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear. Shak.

Forbearance to punish or resent.

Bearing injuries or provocation for a long time; patient; not easily provoked. The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth. Ex. xxxiv. 6.

Disposition to bear injuries patiently; forbearance; patience. Jer. Taylor.

k can be hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight. That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop To hang a doubt on. Shak.

A disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of the Bryozoa. See Phylactolemata.

The central keel-bearing part of the sternum in birds.

y scholars lost their heads. Whitney. -- To lose one's self. (a) To forget or mistake the bearing of surrounding objects; as, to lose one's self in a great city. (b) To have the perceptive and rational power temporarily suspended; as, we lose ourselves in sleep. -- To lose sight of. (a) To cease to see; as, to lose si…

able therefor; as, the losses of the company this year amount to a million of dollars. To bear a loss, to make a loss good; also, to sustain a loss without sinking under it. -- To be at a loss, to be in a state of uncertainty.

e, by chance, or without his planning. O visions ill foreseen! Each day's lot's Enough to bear. Milton. He was but born to try The lot of man -- to suffer and to die. Pope.

A large tree (Celtis australis), found in the south of Europe. It has a hard wood, and bears a cherrylike fruit. Called also nettle tree. Eng. Cyc.

stribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance.

Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister.

s, a lucrative business or office. The trade of merchandise being the most lucrative, may bear usury at a good rate. Bacon.

An American genus of sapotaceous trees bearing sweet and edible fruits.

e to which anything, as a rod, is attached, or against which anything, as a wedge or key, bears, or through which a bolt passes, etc.

A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.

The act of bearing a child.

s discolor) from the Philippine Islands, now introduced into the East and West Indies. It bears an edible fruit as large as a quince.

g billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand. Mace bearer, an officer who carries a mace before person in authority.