| • | To support or sustain; to hold up. | 
											
															| • | To support and remove or carry; to convey. | 
											
															| • | To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. | 
											
															| • | To possess and use, as power; to exercise. | 
											
															| • | To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a
   mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription. | 
											
															| • | To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or
   distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name. | 
											
															| • | To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to
   entertain; to harbor | 
											
															| • | To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer. | 
											
															| • | To gain or win. | 
											
															| • | To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense,
   responsibility, etc. | 
											
															| • | To render or give; to bring forward. | 
											
															| • | To carry on, or maintain; to have. | 
											
															| • | To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain
   without violence, injury, or change. | 
											
															| • | To manage, wield, or direct. | 
											
															| • | To behave; to conduct. | 
											
															| • | To afford; to be to; to supply with. | 
											
															| • | To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples;
   to bear children; to bear interest. | 
											
															| • | To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to
   barrenness. | 
											
															| • | To suffer, as in carrying a burden. | 
											
															| • | To endure with patience; to be patient. | 
											
															| • | To press; -- with on or upon, or against. | 
											
															| • | To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring
   matters to bear. | 
											
															| • | To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this
   bear on the question? | 
											
															| • | To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect. | 
											
															| • | To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect
   to something else; as, the land bears N. by E. | 
											
															| • | A bier. | 
											
															| • | Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied
   genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit
   and insects. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called
   respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa
   Minor. | 
											
															| • | Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person. | 
											
															| • | A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery
   in expectation of a fall in the market. | 
											
															| • | A portable punching machine. | 
											
															| • | A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the
   deck. | 
											
															| • | To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to
   bear a railroad stock; to bear the market. | 
											
															| • | Alt. of Bere |