Bear: Definition and part of speech

Bear

  1. n. Alt. of Bere
  2. v. t. To support or sustain; to hold up.
  3. v. t. To support and remove or carry; to convey.
  4. v. t. To conduct; to bring; — said of persons.
  5. v. t. To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
  6. v. t. To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
  7. v. t. To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
  8. v. t. To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor
  9. v. t. To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
  10. v. t. To gain or win.
  11. 1n. 1 Alt. of Bere
  12. 1v. t. 1 To support or sustain; to hold up.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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