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Bear (v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up.
Bear (v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey.
Bear (v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.
Bear (v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
Bear (v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
Bear (v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
Bear (v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor
Bear (v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
Bear (v. t.) To gain or win.
Bear (v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
Bear (v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward.
Bear (v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
Bear (v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
Bear (v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct.
Bear (v. t.) To behave; to conduct.
Bear (v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with.
Bear (v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
Bear (v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
Bear (v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
Bear (v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient.
Bear (v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against.
Bear (v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
Bear (v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?
Bear (v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
Bear (v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
Bear (n.) A bier.
Bear (n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
Bear (n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.
Bear (n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
Bear (n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
Bear (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
Bear (n.) A portable punching machine.
Bear (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
Bear (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
Bear (n.) Alt. of Bere
Bore (imp.) of Bear
Bore (v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.
Bore (v. t.) To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.
Bore (v. t.) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
Bore (v. t.) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
Bore (v. t.) To befool; to trick.
Bore (v. i.) To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).
Bore (v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
Bore (v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
Bore (v. i.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
Bore (n.) A hole made by boring; a perforation.
Bore (n.) The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
Bore (n.) The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
Bore (n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
Bore (n.) Caliber; importance.
Bore (n.) A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
Bore (n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.
Bore (n.) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.
Bore () imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.