Word Meanings - ARMIFEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bearing arms or weapons.

• BEARSFOOT
  A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.
• Bearing cloth
  A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
• BEARSPAW
  A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.
• Bearing rein
  A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.
• BEARSTATE
  Arkansas; -- a nickname, from the many bears once inhabiting its forests.
• Bearishness
  Behavior like that of a bear.
• BEARTRAPDAM
  A kind of movable dam, in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at the top when raised and folding down one over the other when lowered, for deepening shallow parts in a river.
• Bearable
  Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable.
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.
• Bearberry
  A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.
• Bear's-ear
  A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf.
• Bearbind
  The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).
• Bear's-foot
  A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.
• Bearskin
  The skin of a bear.

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