Bean trefoil

1. A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida).

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Bearer

1. n. A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.
2. n. One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
3. n. Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer.
4. n. A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant.
5. n. A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer.
6. n. One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.

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Bore

1. imp. of Bear
2. v. t. 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.
3. v. t. 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.
4. v. t. 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.
5. v. t. To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
6. v. t. To befool; to trick.
7. v. i. 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).
8. v. i. 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.
9. v. i. To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
10. v. i. To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; — said of a horse.
11. 1imp. 1 of Bear
12. 1v. t. 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.

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Bearherd

1. n. A man who tends a bear.

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Born

1. p. p. of Bear
2. v. t. Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth.

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Bearhound

1. n. A hound for baiting or hunting bears.

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Borne

1. of Bear

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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.

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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.

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Bere

1. n. Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare).
2. v. t. To pierce.

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