Bring

·vt To Convey; to Move; to carry or conduct.

II. Bring ·vt To produce in exchange; to sell for; to Fetch; as, what does coal bring per ton?.

III. Bring ·vt To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to Fetch.

IV. Bring ·vt To cause the accession or obtaining of; to Procure; to make to come; to Produce; to draw to.

V. Bring ·vt To Persuade; to Induce; to Draw; to Lead; to Guide.

bring 'em near
The day-and-night telescope. ...

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bring-to, to
To bend, as to bring-to a sail to the yard. Also, to check the course of a ship by trimming the sail...

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bring up, to
To cast anchor. ...

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bearings, to bring to his
Used in conversation for "to bring to reason." To bring an unruly subject to his senses, to know he ...

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bring by the lee, to
To incline so rapidly to leeward of the course when the ship sails large, or nearly before the wind,...

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bring home the anchor, to
is to weigh it. It applies also when the flukes slip or will not hold; a ship then brings home her a...

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bring-to an anchor, to
To let go the anchor in the intended port. "All hands bring ship to an anchor!" The order by which t...

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bring up with a round turn
Suddenly arresting a running rope by taking a round turn round a bollard, bitt-head, or cleat. Said ...

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