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The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere.

One of several species of poplar bearing this name, especially the Populus tremula, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air.

a house, or a town. The Spanish general prepared to renew the assault. Prescott. Unshaken bears the assault Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest. Wordsworth.

A weight of 29.166 + grams used in assaying, for convenience. Since it bears the same relation to the milligram that a ton of 2000 avoirdupois pounds does to the troy ounce, the weight in milligrams of precious metal obtained from an assay ton of ore gives directly the number of ounces to the ton.

Bearing stars. [R.] Blount.

The sloth bear (Melursus labiatus) of India.

Pertaining to, or resembling, Atlas; strong. With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies. Milton.

as parties at variance; to appease. [Obs.] I would do much To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio. Shak.

To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record. Facts . . . attested by particular pagan authors. Addison.

A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear's-ear. (b)

Gold-bearing; containing or producing gold. Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays. Thomson. ~= pyrites, iron pyrites (iron disulphide), containing some gold disseminated through it.

The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. Gray.

Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded. Gray.

Without awns or beard.

Having awns; bearded.

ircle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.

unds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. pear; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr.ptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. The small b wa…

to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction.

Secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman.

To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.