Bearing

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Bear
2. n. The manner in which one bears or conducts one’s self; mien; behavior; carriage.
3. n. Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
4. n. 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.
5. n. Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
6. n. The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
7. n. 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.
8. n. The portion of a support on which anything rests.
9. n. Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
10. n. The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
11. 1p. pr. & vb. n. 1 of Bear
12. 1n. 1 The manner in which one bears or conducts one’s self; mien; behavior; carriage.

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.