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8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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]r); 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. {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. Syn: To uphold; sustain; maintain; support; undergo; suffer; endure; tolerate; carry; convey; transport; waft. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bore \Bore\ (b[=o]r), n. 1. A hole made by boring; a perforation. 2. The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. The bores of wind instruments. --Bacon. Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing. --Shak. 3. The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber. 4. A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger. 5. Caliber; importance. [Obs.] Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter. --Shak. 6. A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui. It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses. --Hawthorne. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bore \Bore\, v. i. 1. To make a hole or perforation with or as with a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects). 2. To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as this timber does not bore well or is hard to bore. 3. To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort. They take their flight . . . boring to the west. --Dryden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bore \Bore\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bored}; p. pr & vb n. {Boring}.] [OE. borien, AS borian; akin to Icel. bora, Dan. bore, D. boren, OHG. por?n, G. bohren L. forare, Gr ? to plow, Zend bar. [root]91.] 1. To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through to pierce; as to bore a plank. I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored. --Shak. 2. To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole. Short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood. --T. W. Harris. 3. To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through ``What bustling crowds I bored.'' --Gay. 4. To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester. He bores me with some trick. --Shak. Used to come and bore me at rare intervals. --Carlyle. 5. To befool; to trick. [Obs.] I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at scorned, Baffled and bored, it seems --Beau. & Fl From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bore \Bore\, n. [Icel. b[=a]ra wave: cf G. empor upwards, OHG. bor height, burren to lift, perh. allied to AS beran, E. 1st {bear}. [root]92.] (Physical Geog.) a A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China. b Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bore \Bore\, imp. of 1st & 2d {Bear}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: bore n 1: a person who evokes boredom [syn: {dullard}] 2: a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) [syn: {tidal bore}, {eagre}, {aegir}, {eager}] 3: diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: {caliber}, {calibre}] 4: (mining terms) a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes [syn: {bore-hole}, {drill hole}] v 1: cause to be bored [syn: {tire}] [ant: {interest}] 2: drill a hole into [syn: {drill}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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