Bear \Bear\ (b[^a]r), v. t. [imp. {Bore} (b[=o]r) (formerly {Bare} (b[^a]r)); p. p. {Born} (b[^o]rn), {Borne} (b[=o]rn); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bearing}.] [OE. beren, AS. beran, beoran, to bear, carry, produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. geb["a]ren, Goth. ba['i]ran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. b["a]ra, Dan. b[ae]re, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. fe`rein, OSlav. brati to take, carry, OIr. berim I bear, Skr. bh[.r] to bear. [root]92. Cf. {Fertile}.] 1. To support or sustain; to hold up.
2. To support and remove or carry; to convey.
I 'll bear your logs the while. --Shak.
3. To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. [Obs.]
Bear them to my house. --Shak.
4. To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
Every man should bear rule in his own house. --Esther i. 22.
5. To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
6. To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
7. To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor --Dryden.
The ancient grudge I bear him. --Shak.
8. To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. --Pope.
I cannot bear The murmur of this lake to hear. --Shelley.
My punishment is greater than I can bear. --Gen. iv. 13.
9. To gain or win. [Obs.]
Some think to bear it by speaking a great word. --Bacon.
She was . . . found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge. --Latimer.
10. To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
He shall bear their iniquities. --Is. liii. 11.
Somewhat that will bear your charges. --Dryden.
11. To render or give; to bring forward. ``Your testimony bear'' --Dryden.
12. To carry on, or maintain; to have. ``The credit of bearing a part in the conversation.'' --Locke.
13. To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
In all criminal cases the most favorable interpretation should be put on words that they can possibly bear. --Swift.
14. To manage, wield, or direct. ``Thus must thou thy body bear.'' --Shak. Hence: To behave; to conduct.
Hath he borne himself penitently in prison? --Shak.
15. To afford; to be to; to supply with.
His faithful dog shall bear him company. --Pope.
16. To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
Here dwelt the man divine whom Samos bore. --Dryden.
Note: In the passive form of this verb, the best modern usage restricts the past participle born to the sense of brought forth, while borne is used in the other senses of the word. In the active form, borne alone is used as the past participle.
{To bear down}. (a) To force into a lower place; to carry down; to depress or sink. ``His nose, . . . large as were the others, bore them down into insignificance.'' --Marryat. (b) To overthrow or crush by force; as, to bear down an enemy.
{To bear a hand}. (a) To help; to give assistance. (b) (Naut.) To make haste; to be quick.
{To bear in hand}, to keep (one) up in expectation, usually by promises never to be realized; to amuse by false pretenses; to delude. [Obs.] ``How you were borne in hand, how crossed.'' --Shak.
{To bear in mind}, to remember.
{To bear off}. (a) To restrain; to keep from approach. (b) (Naut.) To remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against anything; as, to bear off a blow; to bear off a boat. (c) To gain; to carry off, as a prize. (d) (Backgammon) To remove from the backgammon board into the home when the position of the piece and the dice provide the proper opportunity; -- the goal of the game is to bear off all of one's men before the opponent.
{To bear one hard}, to owe one a grudge. [Obs.] ``C[ae]sar doth bear me hard.'' --Shak.
{To bear out}. (a) To maintain and support to the end; to defend to the last. ``Company only can bear a man out in an ill thing.'' --South. (b) To corroborate; to confirm.
{To bear up}, to support; to keep from falling or sinking. ``Religious hope bears up the mind under sufferings.'' --Addison.
Bear \Bear\ (b[^a]r), n. [OE. bere, AS. bera; akin to D. beer, OHG. bero, pero, G. b["a]r, Icel. & Sw. bj["o]rn, and possibly to L. fera wild beast, Gr. fh`r beast, Skr. bhalla bear.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of the genus {Ursus}, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade {Carnivora}, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
Note: The European brown bear ({Ursus arctos}), the white polar bear ({Ursus maritimus}), the grizzly bear ({Ursus horribilis}), the American black bear, and its variety the cinnamon bear ({Ursus Americanus}), the Syrian bear ({Ursus Syriacus}), and the sloth bear, are among the notable species.
2. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
3. (Astron.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the {Great Bear} and the {Lesser Bear}, or {Ursa Major} and {Ursa Minor}.
4. Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
5. (Stock Exchange) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
Note: The bears and bulls of the Stock Exchange, whose interest it is, the one to depress, and the other to raise, stocks, are said to be so called in allusion to the bear's habit of pulling down, and the bull's of tossing up.
6. (Mach.) A portable punching machine.
7. (Naut.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
{Australian bear}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Koala}.
{Bear baiting}, the sport of baiting bears with dogs.
{Bear caterpillar} (Zo["o]l.), the hairy larva of a moth, esp. of the genus {Euprepia}.
{Bear garden}. (a) A place where bears are kept for diversion or fighting. (b) Any place where riotous conduct is common or permitted. --M. Arnold.
{Bear leader}, one who leads about a performing bear for money; hence, a facetious term for one who takes charge of a young man on his travels.
Bear \Bear\ (b[^a]r), v. i. 1. To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
This age to blossom, and the next to bear. --Dryden.
2. To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
But man is born to bear. --Pope.
3. To endure with patience; to be patient.
I can not, can not bear. --Dryden.
4. To press; -- with on or upon, or against.
These men bear hard on the suspected party. --Addison.
5. To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
6. To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?
7. To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
Her sentence bore that she should stand a certain time upon the platform. --Hawthorne.
8. To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
{To bear against}, to approach for attack or seizure; as, a lion bears against his prey. [Obs.]
{To bear away} (Naut.), to change the course of a ship, and make her run before the wind.
{To bear back}, to retreat. ``Bearing back from the blows of their sable antagonist.'' --Sir W. Scott.
{To bear down upon} (Naut.), to approach from the windward side; as, the fleet bore down upon the enemy.
{To bear in with} (Naut.), to run or tend toward; as, a ship bears in with the land.
{To bear off} (Naut.), to steer away, as from land.
{To bear up}. (a) To be supported; to have fortitude; to be firm; not to sink; as, to bear up under afflictions. (b) (Naut.) To put the helm up (or to windward) and so put the ship before the wind; to bear away. --Hamersly.
{To bear upon} (Mil.), to be pointed or situated so as to affect; to be pointed directly against, or so as to hit (the object); as, to bring or plant guns so as to bear upon a fort or a ship; the artillery bore upon the center.
{To bear up to}, to tend or move toward; as, to bear up to one another.
{To bear with}, to endure; to be indulgent to; to forbear to resent, oppose, or punish.
Bear \Bear\ (b[=e]r), n. A bier. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Bear \Bear\, v. t. (Stock Exchange) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
Bear \Bear\, Bere \Bere\ (b[=e]r), n. [AS. bere. See {Barley}.] (Bot.) Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former ({Hordeum hexastichon} or {Hordeum vulgare}). [Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]
As the first wines of the year, the Beaujolais nouveau, normally considered an inexpensive lightweight, served as a bellwether to both quality and the price the market will bear.
Some funds are allowed to take bull and bear positions in a range of financial instruments, and even in agricultural commodities, where there is a perceived opportunity for profit.
How well would an economy already struggling with tight credit conditions and weak consumer spending bear the added burden of a tax increase?
If more U.S. companies do get back into D-rams, say critics of the consortium idea, Japanese companies will just bring their advantages to bear on other chip products and markets, making a more wide-ranging industrial policy necessary.
And in one way or another since then, MacNutt has been fighting for the right to bear arms.
Another bear on gold is August Arace, co-manager of the Freedom Gold & Government Trust, an open-end mutual fund.
Banks and depositors should bear more of the risk now assumed by the taxpayers, a Treasury official said in outlining proposed changes to the federal deposit insurance system.
They invoke the "competent judgment" of the "44 Nobel laureates" who grace the Federation of American Scientists' masthead, but it has never been brought to bear on "nuclear winter."
"I hope the Wyoming bear will be good company for your plaid bear," Sullivan wrote.
"I hope the Wyoming bear will be good company for your plaid bear," Sullivan wrote.
But, she adds, too often the child becomes "a secondary consideration" for parents unwilling to care for kids full time or to bear the full financial burden.
The recalled cans and packets bear an expiration date of between August 1988 and October 1991: from "USEBY 8 88" through "EXP 1 OCT 91," or have the following batch codes: MKH81, MKH82, MLH46, and MLH47.
Officials' ideas for circumventing these legally - by so-called Mexican trusts, for example - have yet to bear fruit. But there is still plenty of local money waiting to get into the market when the time is right.
In a bear market, however, stock prices fall so quickly they often tumble right through stop-loss orders, Mr. Biehl says.
Brash, unsuitable ties - penguin and teddy bear motifs seem popular - remain the norm. The colour is still to be found, but you have to look increasingly hard to spot it.
"I am very happy but I am aware of what a cross, a union cross, a Polish cross, we are to bear," Walesa told delegates to Solidarity's second national congress.
The rest of us can only grit our teeth and bear it. The Irish and UK prime ministers will say that their joint declaration of December 15 stands.
"Despite having shown considerable initiative in her duties, she has to bear objective responsibility for the situation" in Kosovo, said a statement by Kosovo's leadership, carried by Tanjug.
With economic recovery proceeding at a slow pace, companies have yet to build up stocks so keeping a lid on their financing requirements. Federal Reserve figures bear this out.
Futures margin is not part of a credit extension, but is a performance bond paid by both the buyer and seller to assure that they will honor obligations to bear price risk.
Only after dealing with the agency's chief cartographer, did his crusade bear fruit.
The increase was greater than expected, but the Fed still left the door open for a future increase later this year or early in 1995. 'It's a bear market scenario.
This includes above all the thousands of men and women in our armed forces who are now in the Gulf, but we also expect others to bear their fair share.
Sheriff Ed Whaley said his office received a report Sunday afternoon that a young bear was prowling in some sugar beet fields about three miles north of Hardin.
A 2-year-old who was kidnapped as a baby and adopted by an Israeli couple returned home clutching her Brazilian parents and a teddy bear.
"What we're looking at is, rather than the agency doing that, we'll just provide an opportunity for the sportsman to harvest that bear," Talbott said.
Around mid-January, however, he said he expects stocks to turn lower as a six-month to nine-month bear market takes hold.
A three-ton bull took up a stand in front of the New York Stock Exchange for part of Friday, but the exchange couldn't bear the bronze statue and had it hauled away.
But he cautions that any snapback will be a "bear trap."
Its polished black granite walls bear the names of the more than 58,000 Vietnam war dead, including eight uniformed nurses.