Word Meanings - COSTIFEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebrae.

• Bearing cloth
  A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
• BEARINGCLOTH
  A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. Shak.
• BEARINGREIN
  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.
• 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.
• BEARINGRING
  In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship.
• BEARSEAR
  A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf.
• Bearishness
  Behavior like that of a bear.
• 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.
• Bearable
  Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable.
• BEARSPAW
  A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.
• 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-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.
• BEARSTATE
  Arkansas; -- a nickname, from the many bears once inhabiting its forests.
• Bearbind
  The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).
• Bear's-ear
  A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf.
• 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.

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