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

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