Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection..
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing..
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall..
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports..
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal..
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W..
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
Bearing Cloth :: Bearing cloth () A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
Bearing Rein :: Bearing rein () 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.
Bearish :: Bearish (a.) Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners.
Bearishness :: Bearishness (n.) Behavior like that of a bear.
Childbearing :: Childbearing (n.) The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.