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Bearing or producing acorns.

Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.

hin a socket, so as to admit of motion in every direction within certain limits. -- Ball bearings, a mechanical device for lessening the friction of axle bearings by means of small loose metal balls. -- Ball cartridge, a cartridge containing a ball, as distinguished from a blank cartridge, containing only powder. --…

A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

itten also bannerol.] From the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole or streamer bearing a cross. Sir W. Scott.

s money for safe keeping. -- Bank of issue, a bank which issues its own notes payable to bearer.

In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note.

A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand.

of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.

Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. The barbel, so called by reason of his barbs, or wattles in his mouth. Walton.

Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.

One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons. Barber's itch. See under Itch.

y Bucconidæ, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.

Having a beard; bearded; hairy.

A very minute barb or beard. Booth.

Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.

eog.), a vast tract in British America northward of the forest regions. -- Barren Ground bear (Zoöl.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting the Barren Grounds, now believed to be a variety of the brown bear of Europe. -- Barren Ground caribou (Zoöl.), a small reindeer (Rangifer Groenlandicus) peculiar to the Barren Grounds an…

A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.

The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue. [Obs.] If no basis bear my rising name. Pope.

An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court. Mozley & W.