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line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head earing.

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

Apparently. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

r 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.

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

The act or process of making clear. The better clearing of this point. South.

p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear.

Sorrow. [Obs.] Spenser.

Making dear or beloved; causing love. -- En*dear"ing*ly, adv.

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

f an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery. Frictional gearing. See under Frictional. -- Gearing chain, an endless chain transmitted motion from one sprocke…

Having a reverential and loving feeling towards God; religious. A brave good-fearing man. Tennyson.

ing sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; as, my hearing is good. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear. Job xlii. 5.

Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.

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.