meaning of bearing
1. The manner in which one bears or conducts ones self; mien; behavior; carriage.
2. Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
3. 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.
4. Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
5. The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
6. 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.
7. The portion of a support on which anything rests.
8. Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
9. The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
10. The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
11. Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.
12. The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ships position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc. ; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W.
13. The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.
14. The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
15. A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
16. A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horses head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.
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