Word Finder - bears

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A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae.

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A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.

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An investor who sells commodities, securities or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.

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A state policeman (short for smokey bear).

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A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.

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A portable punching machine.

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A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.

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The fifteenth Lenormand card.

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Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.

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That window can be a bear to open.

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To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.

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to bear a railroad stock

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To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.

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Judging from the look on his face, he wasn't bearing good news.

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To support, sustain, or endure.

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To support, keep up, or maintain.

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To press or impinge upon.

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To produce, yield, give birth to.

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(originally nautical) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).

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By my readings, we're bearing due south, so we should turn about ten degrees east.

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To gain or win.

There are bears out here.

Maybe so, but there have been many people attacked by bears - mostly black bears.

All this talk about bears was frightening her.

Only one of us bears his name.

Why do I get the feeling it's the bears that should be concerned?

It bears cones as large as a man's head.

This leash, attached to your wrist, bears most of your weight.

There are seven other similar structures in the group. Inishmore also bears the name of Aran-na-naomh, Aran-of-the-Saints, from the number of religious recluses who took up their abode in it, and gave a celebrity to the holy wells, altars and shrines, to which many are still attracted.

The Seriema, owing to its long legs and neck, stands some two feet or more in height, and in menageries bears itself with a stately deportment.

The Order of Pius was founded in 1847 by Pius IX.; there are now three classes; the badge is an eight-pointed blue star with golden flames between the rays, a white centre bears the founder's name; the ribbon is blue with two red stripes at each border.

Because she bears you less ill will than I do?

The northern portion of it consists of a lofty ridge with two summits, the westernmost of which is occupied by the modern town (985 ft.), while the easternmost, which is slightly higher, bears the name of Rock of Athena, owing to its identification in modern days with the acropolis of Acragas as described by Polybius, who places upon it the temple of Zeus Atabyrius (the erection of which was attributed to the half mythical Phalaris) and that of Athena.'

The large number of Slavonic local names in Albania, even in districts where no trace of a Slavonic population exists, bears witness to the extensive Servian and Bulgarian immigrations in the early middle ages, but the original inhabitants gradually ousted or assimilated the invaders.

A code of instructions for the guidance of church courts when engaged in cases of discipline is in general use, and bears witness to the extreme care taken not only to have things done decently and in order, but also to prevent hasty, impulsive and illogical procedure in the investigation of charges of heresy or immorality.

His son Fasilidas, or A'lem-Seged (1633-1667), was the builder of the castle which bears his name.

The ground in the valleys and plains bear very good corn, but especially bears barley or bigge, and oats, but rarely wheat and rye."

Neither can we see the cruel bears, for they also eat the fruit.

The mummers (some of the house serfs) dressed up as bears, Turks, innkeepers, and ladies--frightening and funny--bringing in with them the cold from outside and a feeling of gaiety, crowded, at first timidly, into the anteroom, then hiding behind one another they pushed into the ballroom where, shyly at first and then more and more merrily and heartily, they started singing, dancing, and playing Christmas games.

Maybe Yancey would be more careful in the future about using the threat of bears as a method of keeping Lisa away from that building.

That's what dogs do—and bears.

What they found was the tracks of two small bears.

Phenazone is an isomer of phenazine, to which it bears the same relation that phenanthrene bears to anthracene.

The principal spring in the neighbourhood of Jericho still bears (among the foreign residents) the name of Elisha; the natives call it, Ain es-Sultan, or "Sultan's spring."

The pulpit (mimbar) bears an inscription showing that the building existed in 1018.

Such a plasmodium bears, on its periphery, groups of rounded projections of protoplasm termed end-organs.

The float is covered with long tentacles and bears the medusa-buds.

The proboscis bears at its extremity a circlet of smaller oral tentacles.

The hydroid genus Lafoea is remarkable for producing gonothecae on the hydrorhiza, each containing a blastostyle which bears a single gonophore; this portion of the colony was formerly regarded as an independent parasitic hydroid, and was named Coppinia.

Other genera are Aglauropsis, Gossea and Gonionemus; the last named bears adhesive suckers on the tentacles.

In the same tanks a small hydroid, very similar to Microhydra, has been found, which bears medusa-buds and is probably the stock from which the medusa is budded.

These theories, however, contain little that bears directly on the hypothesis of a natural evolution of things.

Thus Westminster Abbey is sometimes styled the British "Pantheon," and the rotunda in the Escorial where the kings of Spain are buried also bears the name.

The length of the Tetuaroa reef ring is about six miles; it bears twelve palm-covered islets, of which several are inhabited, and has one narrow boat-passage leading into the lagoon.

A letter like this, clear cut in its thought, teeming with ideas emanating from an unique religious experience, and admirably adjusted to known situations, bears on the face of it the marks of genuineness even without recourse to the unusually excellent external attestation.

Wren apparently did not himself approve of this second design, for he got the king to give him permission to alter it as much as he liked, without showing models or drawings to any one, and the actual building bears little resemblance to the approved design, to which it is very superior in almost every possible point.

The base of the stem bears numerous cell-filaments (rhizoids) which fix the plant to the substratum upon which it is growing.

The surface layer of the rhizome bears rhizoids, and its whole structure strikingly resembles that of the typical root of a vascular plant.

The gametophyte, which bears the sexual organs, is either a free-living thallus corresponding in degree of differentiation with the lower liverworts, or it is a mass of cells which always remains enclosed in a spore and is parasitic upon the sporophyte.

The increasing development of the wood as the tree grows older is largely due to the demands for the conduction of water and mineral matters dissolved in it, which are made by the increased number of leaves which from year to year it bears, and which must each be put into communication with the central mass by the formation of new vascular bundles.

The purpose of the movements bears out the contention that the plant is trying to adjust itself to its environment.

The root is an axis which never bears either leaves or the proper reproductive organs (whether sexual or asexual) of the plant.

He started on the 21st of September 1519, entered the strait which now bears his name in October 1520, worked his way through between Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, and entered on Vasco da Gama.

From this place Quiros returned to America, but Torres continued the voyage, passed through the strait between Australia and New Guinea which bears his name, and explored and mapped the southern and eastern coasts of New Guinea.

Dampier's literary ability eventually secured for him a commission in the king's service; and he was sent on a voyage of discovery, during which he explored part of the coasts of Australia and New Guinea, and discovered the strait which bears his name between New Guinea and New Britain, returning in 1701.

In 1772 the French explorer Yves Kerguelen de Tremarec had discovered the land that bears his name in the South Indian Ocean without recognizing it to be an island, and naturally believed it to be part of the southern continent.

With the same object Alexander Mackenzie, with a party of Canadians, set out from Fort Chippewyan on the 3rd of June 1789, and descending the great river which now bears the explorer's name reached the Arctic sea.

The os articulare bears on its inner side the inner mandibular process which serves for the insertion of part of the digastric muscle or opener of the mouth; another portion of this muscle is attached to the os angulare, which frequently forms a FIG.

Its proximal end forms a shallow cup for articulation with the outer condyle of the humerus; the distal end bears a knob which fits into the radial carpal.

It bears much the same relationship to Siamese and Shan that Latin does to Italian.

The former bears a general resemblance to the Cherub log, but the dial plate is horizontal and the faces turn upwards.