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er 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.

Behavior. [Obs.] Sir. T. More.

The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition. Milton. Addison.

Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering. -- For*bear"ing*ly, adv.

Overpowering; subduing; repressing. I. Watts.

A bearing containing friction rollers.

A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church. [Eng.] Nares.

Telling tales officiously.

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.

also, the most considerable ship of a fleet. Like some mighty admiral, dark and terrible, bearing down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett.

ence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James adored. Smollett.

Conveying or containing air; air-bearing; as, the windpipe is an aëriferous tube.

Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain.

A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag.

The peculiar look, appearance, and bearing of a person; mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a lofty air. "His very air." Shak.

Rhamnus frangula); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex verticillata), bearing red berries.