n. Behavior. [ Obs. ] Sir. T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Apparently. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

I know him by his bearing. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Patient endurance; suffering without complaint. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

But of this frame, the bearings and the ties,
The strong connections, nice dependencies. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ His mother ] in travail of his bearing. R. of Gloucester. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Arch.) (a) 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. (b) The portion of a support on which anything rests. (c) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Mach.) (a) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal. (b) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Her.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. [ 1913 Webster ]

A carriage covered with armorial bearings. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Naut.) (a) 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. (b) pl. The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. (c) pl. The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ball bearings. See under Ball. --
To bring one to his bearings, to bring one to his senses. --
To lose one's bearings, to become bewildered. --
To take bearings, to ascertain by the compass the position of an object; to ascertain the relation of one object or place to another; to ascertain one's position by reference to landmarks or to the compass; hence (Fig.), to ascertain the condition of things when one is in trouble or perplexity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Deportment; gesture; mien; behavior; manner; carriage; demeanor; port; conduct; direction; relation; tendency; influence. [ 1913 Webster ]

A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

. In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition. Milton. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of making clear. [ 1913 Webster ]

The better clearing of this point. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation. [ 1913 Webster ]

A lonely clearing on the shores of Moxie Lake. J. Burroughs. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In England, a similar method has been adopted by railroads for adjusting their accounts with each other. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clearing house, the establishment where the business of clearing is carried on. See above, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

Disappearing carriage (Ordnance), a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing carriage in the coast artillery of the United States army is the Buffington-Crozier carriage, in which the gun trunnions are secured at the upper and after ends of a pair of heavy levers, at the lower ends of which is attached a counterweight of lead. The levers are pivoted at their middle points, which are, with the top carriage, permitted restrained motion along the slightly inclined chassis rails. The counterweight is held in place by a pawl and ratchet. When the gun is loaded the pawl is released and the counterweight sinks, raising the gun to the firing position above the parapet. The recoil following the discharge returns the gun to the loading position, the counterweight rising until the pawl engages the ratchet. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Sorrow. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) (a) A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head earing. (b) A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; -- also called reef earing. (c) A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Coming into ear, as corn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A plowing of land. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither earing nor harvest. Gen. xlv. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Making dear or beloved; causing love. -- En*dear"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering. -- For*bear"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. Harness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mach.) The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of a locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Frictional gearing. See under Frictional. --
Gearing chain, an endless chain transmitting motion from one sprocket wheel to another. See Illust. of Chain wheel. --
Spur gearing, gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

god"fear`ing, a. Having a reverential and loving feeling towards God; devoutly religious.
Syn. -- devout, pious. [1913 Webster]

A brave god-fearing man. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

a god-fearing and law-abiding people. H. L. Mencken [WordNet 1.5]

adj. having a reduced ability to hear, but not fully deaf; partly deaf.
Syn. -- hearing-impaired. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; as, my hearing is good. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear. Job xlii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Hearing in a special sensation, produced by stimulation of the auditory nerve; the stimulus (waves of sound) acting not directly on the nerve, but through the medium of the endolymph on the delicate epithelium cells, constituting the peripheral terminations of the nerve. See Ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard; audience; as, I could not obtain a hearing. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A listening to facts and evidence, for the sake of adjudication; a session of a court for considering proofs and determining issues. [ 1913 Webster ]

His last offenses to us
Shall have judicious hearing. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Another hearing before some other court. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Hearing, as applied to equity cases, means the same thing that the word trial does at law. Abbot. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Extent within which sound may be heard; sound; earshot. “She's not within hearing.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

They laid him by the pleasant shore,
And in the hearing of the wave. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having a hearing impairment making hearing difficult; having a defective but functioning sense of hearing.
Syn. -- hard-of-hearing. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

[ So called from the inventor. ] (Mach.) Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Arch.) Supporting a load{ 10 } from parts of a structure above; as, a load-bearing wall. [ prenominal ]
Syn. -- supporting(prenominal). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. withstanding long use without deterioration; resistant to damage.
Syn. -- durable. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. 1. (Arch.) supporting no vertical weight other than its own; -- of a structural member; as, a non-bearing wall. [ Narrower terms: dividing(prenominal) ] bearing [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. containing oils; -- of geological formations; as, oil-bearing shale. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Overpowering; subduing; repressing. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent. [ 1913 Webster ]

--O`ver*bear"ing*ly, adv. -- O`ver*bear"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Mach.) A bearing containing friction rollers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church. [ Eng. ] Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Same as Shearling. Youatt. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The act or operation of reaping. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The process of preparing shear steel; tilting. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shearing machine. (a) A machine with blades, or rotary disks, for dividing plates or bars of metal. (b) A machine for shearing cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Act of shearing sheep. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A feast at the time of sheep-shearing. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Swear, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

Idle swearing is a cursedness. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of informing officiously; communication of secrets, scandal, etc., maliciously. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Telling tales officiously. [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption. [ 1913 Webster ]

Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is worn; clothes; garments. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Give me my nightly wearing and adieu. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or designed for, wear; as, wearing apparel. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. (Zool.) being the sex that produces ova and carries the fetus to a point where it can live outside the parent; -- of animals. [ prenominal ]
Syn. -- egg-producing(prenominal). [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]