Bear

1. To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
2. To support and remove or carry; to convey.
3. Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
4. A portable punching machine.
5. To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
6. To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
7. To gain or win.
8. A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
9. To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
10. To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
11. To press; -- with on or upon, or against.
12. To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
13. Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
14. To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor
15. One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
16. A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
17. To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
18. To manage, wield, or direct.
19. To behave; to conduct.
20. To render or give; to bring forward.
21. To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question
22. To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
23. To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
24. To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
25. To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
26. To endure with patience; to be patient.
27. To support or sustain; to hold up.
28. To afford; to be to; to supply with.
29. To carry on, or maintain; to have.
30. A bier.
31. To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
32. An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.
33. To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.
34. To suffer, as in carrying a burden.