·noun Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
II. Bearing ·noun Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
III. Bearing ·noun The portion of a support on which anything rests.
IV. Bearing ·noun The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.
V. Bearing ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Bear.
VI. Bearing ·noun The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
VII. Bearing ·noun The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
VIII. Bearing ·noun The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
IX. Bearing ·noun Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms — commonly in the ·pl
X. Bearing ·noun The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
XI. Bearing ·noun Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
XII. Bearing ·noun The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
XIII. Bearing ·noun 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.
XIV. Bearing ·noun 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.
XV. Bearing ·noun 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.