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The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage. I know him by his bearing. Shak.

A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. Shak.

A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.

In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship.

Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.

Behavior like that of a bear.

See Bairn. [Obs.]

The skin of a bear.

A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. [R.] Shak.

A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.

To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser.

One that besmears.

A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.

Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coördinates.

Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells.

Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.

A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin.

Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes. His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin. Dryden.

Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted. The blear-eyed Crispin. Drant.

Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum. -- Blear"ed*ness (, n. Dardanian wives, With bleared visages, come forth to view The issue of the exploit. Shak.