Bearing rein

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  ·vi To be guided by reins. II. Rein ·vt To govern or direct with the reins; as, to rein a horse one...

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• rein

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• Bearing

  ·noun Patient endurance; suffering without complaint. II. Bearing ·noun Purport; meaning; intended ...

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• bearing

  An arc of the horizon intercepted between the nearest meridian and any distant object, either discov...

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• Bearing cloth

  ·- A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. ...

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• Bearing ring

  ·add. ·- In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functi...

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• Roller bearing

  ·add. ·- A bearing containing friction rollers. ...

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• Rush-bearing

  ·noun A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes t...

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• gold-bearing

  verbal adj. auriferous. 1890. `Goldfields of Victoria,' p. 13: «A new line of gold-bearing quartz...

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• bearing binnacle

  A small binnacle with a single compass, usually placed before the other. In line-of-battle ships it ...

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• bearing backstays aft

  To throw the breast backstays out of the cross-tree horns or out-riggers and bear them aft. If not d...

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• line of bearing

  A previously determined bearing given out by a commander-in-chief, as well as line-of-battle. "From ...

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