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1. The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage. 2. Patient endurance; suffering without complaint. 3. 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. 4. Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect. 5. The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing. 6. 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. 7. The portion of a support on which anything rests. 8. Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports. 9. The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal. 10. The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates. 11. Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. 12. 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. 13. The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. 14. The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast. 15. A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. 16. 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. 17. of Bear 
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