Word Finder - borne

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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.

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Carried, supported.

You have borne arms against us.

The sadness she felt as his truck disappeared down the road was borne of fear.

As far as he could tell, she had borne it all without breathing a word to anyone else.

Both women took the knives, handling them with awkwardness borne of a lack of familiarity with handling deadly weapons.

Before I left New York, these bright days were darkened by the greatest sorrow that I have ever borne, except the death of my father.

The name was borne also by four Parthian kings.

The few records during the middle ages are borne out by what is known of famines and pestilence.

A soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as much as a sailor is by his ship.

The bullfrogs trump to usher in the night, and the note of the whip-poor-will is borne on the rippling wind from over the water.

The leaves when borne on an elongated stem are arranged alternately and have no stipules.

The desire for union which led to the formation of the alliance has, since 1875, borne remarkable fruit.

Owing to failing health he gave up his lectures in 1904, and in May 1906 resigned his mastership, in which he was succeeded by James Leigh Strachan-Davidson, who had previously for some time, as senior tutor and fellow, borne the chief burden of college administration.

Showing in borne on the spadix.

The map is supposed to be based upon actual surveys or rather reconnaissances, and if it be borne in mind that.

The title of vizier was borne by six or seven persons simultaneously; the grand vizier was the chief of these and exercised supreme authority, being invested with the sultan's signet.

In the following winter this will take the place of the branch which has just borne, and which is to be cut out.

Various charges had been brought against him by his enemies, among them that of illiteracy, the truth of which is borne out by the crudeness of his style, and is fully admitted by the writer himself.

This is fully borne out by the experiments of Julius Thomsen, who found that the heat of neutralization of one gramme-molecule of a strong base by an equivalent quantity of a strong acid was nearly constant, and equal to 13,700 or 13,800 calories.

In the additional explanatory notes at the end of the book, after directions as to the wearing of surplice and hood in quire, in cathedral and collegiate churches (they are not made obligatory elsewhere), bishops are directed to wear, besides the rochet, a surplice or alb, and a cope or vestment, with a pastoral staff borne either by themselves or their chaplains.'

From the end of the 16th century the inheritors of the Hussite tradition in Bohemia were included in the more general name of "Protestants" borne by the adherents of the Reformation.

The honorary title of count of Galicia has frequently been borne by younger sons of the Spanish sovereign.

But it can be shown conclusively that the river has borne its present designation from the earliest times.

The title Amir ul Muminim, or "commander of the faithful," now borne by the sultan of Turkey, was first assumed by Abu Bekr, and was taken by most of the various dynasties which claimed the caliphate, including the Fatimites, the Spanish Omayyads and the Almohades.

Male and female flowers are borne on distinct plants.

The name Nina, was borne also by the goddess Ishtar, whose worship was the special cult of Nineveh, and Ninua may well be a hypocoristicon of Nina,.

Yet it should be borne in mind, that, when Clement VII.

Van Buren was not an orator, but... the oft-repeated charge that he refrained from declaring himself on crucial questions is hardly borne out by an examination of his senatorial career.

Such remains as there are of their language, a few expressions and the proper names of ancient chieftains still borne by certain families, connect it with the Berber dialects.

The small flowers or spikelets are borne in pairs on the ultimate branches of a much branched feathery plume-like terminal grey inflorescence, 2 ft.

The process of continuous defecation which was introduced into Cuba from Santo Domingo about 1900 had by 1910 borne the test of some ten years' use with notable success.

With ordinary care on the part of the men in charge Hatton defecators will work continuously for several days and nights, and the number required to deal with a given volume of juice is half the number of ordinary defecators of equal capacity which would do the same work; for it must be borne in mind that an ordinary double-bottomed defecator takes two hours to deliver its charge and be in readiness to receive a fresh charge, i.e.

He assumed the title of Alphonso XII.; for although no king of united Spain had previously borne the name, the Spanish monarchy was regarded as continuous with the more ancient monarchy, represented by the eleven kings of Leon and Castile already referred to.

These complex organs have apparently arisen by the increase in depth and differentiation of an accessory sucker such as is borne on the phyllidia of the former group. Lastly, the scolex of the more familiar Taeniidae (Tetracotylea) carries a rostellum encircled with hooks and four cup-shaped suckers the margins of which do not project beyond the surface of the body.

In stature they range from the size of a hare to that of a rhinoceros; and their horns vary in size and shape from the small and simple spikes of the oribi and duiker antlers to the enormous and variously shaped structures borne respectively by buffaloes, wild sheep and kudu and other large antelopes.

The flowers are unisexual and monoecious, the numerous males borne in thick catkins proceeding from the side of last year's shoot.

The female flowers are solitary or few in number, and borne on Short terminal spikes of the present season's growth.

From his great dialectical skill he earned the title 6 &caXEKTLKOS, or SCaXEKTCKCJTaTos, a title which was borne by his five daughters, who inherited his ability.

Great part of the burden has been borne throughout by the "City Extension Fund," realized from the utilization of the ground formerly occupied by the fortifications and glacis.

In Ezekiel the throne of Yahweh is borne up on Cherubim, the noise of whose wings is like thunder.

It must, however, be borne in mind that a Trematode may develop in an "aberrant" manner in one host and "normally" in another; and unless we knew the initial stock, the two forms would be regarded as distinct species,.

This view of the distinction seems to be borne out by the division of the work of Tacitus into the Historiae, relating the events of his own time, and the Annales, containing the history of earlier periods.

The hope of Zion is in future restoration after she has patiently borne the chastisement of her sins.

Indeed, but for the unceasing simultaneous struggle with the Teutonic knights, the burden of which was heroically borne by Kiejstut, Russian historians frankly admit that Lithuania, not Muscovy, must have become the dominant power of eastern Europe.

Bolingbroke's conversation, described by Lord Chesterfield as "such a flowing happiness of expression that even his most familiar conversations if taken down in writing would have borne the press without the least correction," his delightful companionship, his wit, good looks, and social qualities which charmed during his lifetime and made firm friendships with men of the most opposite character, can now only be faintly imagined.

The other provinces were governed by dukes and magistri militum, titles which were generally, but not always, borne by the same person.

It is, however, still borne by the Lutheran bishop of Upsala, who is metropolitan of Sweden, and by the Lutheran bishop of tkbo in Finland.

By the treaty of Utrecht (1713) Victor received the long-coveted Montferrat and was made king of Sicily; but in 1718 the powers obliged him to exchange that kingdom for Sardinia, which conferred on the rulers of Savoy and Piedmont the title subsequently borne by them until they assumed that of kings of Italy.

He was succeeded by his only son, Victor Emmanuel III., bornborn in 1869, who during his father's lifetime had ul borne the title of prince of Naples.

He calls it " the beautiful confession " to which Christ Jesus had borne witness before Pontius Pilate, and charges Timothy before God, who quickeneth all things, to keep this commandment.

The rather small tubular yellow or red flowers are borne on simple or branched leafless stems, and are generally densely clustered.