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Telling tales officiously.

One whose office it is to carry a torch.

One who holds up a train, as of a robe.

A pendulous branching lichen (Usnea barbata); -- so called from its resemblance to hair.

To remove or loose the bearing rein of (a horse).

To support; to endure. [Obs.] Shak.

One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall.

To bear up; to raise aloft; to support in an elevated situation; to sustain. Spenser. One short sigh of breath, upbore Even to the seat of God. Milton. A monstrous wave upbore The chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore. Pope.

A trim, pointed beard, such as those often seen in pictures by Vandyke.

Any species of Tardigrada, 2. See Illust. of Tardigrada.

The constellation Aquarius.

An old man; a graybeard.

To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with. She could not abide Master Shallow. Shak.

To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak.

The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. The abstinence from…

abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness. W. Black.

Spine-bearing. Gray.

genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.

nt tone; (pl.) expressions in general; speech. Winds! on your wings to Heaven her accents bear, Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear. Dryden.

quiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition.