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Webster's English Dictionary

bearing

n. 1. The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage. ()

I know him by his bearing. (Shak.)

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. ()

But of this frame, the bearings and the ties, The strong connections, nice dependencies. (Pope.)

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. ()

[His mother] in travail of his bearing. (R. of Gloucester.)

6. (Arch.) 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. (Mach.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal. ()

8. (Her.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. ()

A carriage covered with armorial bearings. (Thackeray.)

9. (Naut.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's 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. ()

Ball bearings. See under Ball. -- To bring one to his bearings, to bring one to his senses. -- To lose one's bearings, to become bewildered. -- To take bearings, to ascertain by the compass the position of an object; to ascertain the relation of one object or place to another; to ascertain one's position by reference to landmarks or to the compass; hence (Fig.), to ascertain the condition of things when one is in trouble or perplexity. ()

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