Bear garden

A place in which bears were for merly kept for the sport of baiting. - A name sometimes given, in modern parlance, to a rude, noisy, turbulent a embly. Bear Grove, in low a , a twp. of Guthrie co. Bear'herd, n. A person who tends bears. "I will even take sixpence in earnest of the bearherd, and lead his apes into hell."-Shaks. Bearing, ( bair'ing .) n. Supporting; carrying; sustaining. Specifically, the manner in which one conducts one's self; deportment; mien; gesture; behavior. "That is Claudio; I know him by his bearing."-Shaks. -Act of giving birth; producing fruit; as, a tree in full bearing. -Relation, tendency, influence; used with respect to the situation of an object or anything having connection with it, or to be influenced by it. It."- Dickens . "The bearings of this observation lays in the application on (Arch.) The arch or span of a beam, rafter, or other piece of timber, or the unsupported distance between its points of support. (Her.) See ARMORIAL BEARINGS. ( Mar. ) An arch in the sky intercepted between the nearest meridian and any distant object, either discovered by the eye and referred to a point on the compa , or resulting from sinical proportion. It is also used to mark the situation of any distant object in connection with a ship's position. Sailors often take the bearings of another ship, or some object on shore, to save themselves the trouble of referring to the compa . (Mach.) That part of a shaft or axle which is in contact with the supports. stituting the dep. of Ba es Pyrénées, q. v. The capital was Pau, the birthplace of Henry IV. B. was included in the country of the Aquitani, according to the threefold division of Gaul laid down by Julius Cæsar in the beginning of his Commentaries. It was subjugated by the Romans, and upon the downfall of their empire came into the hands of the Goths, from whom it was wrested by the Franks under Clovis. It was, however, subsequently lost by the Franks, but came again into their po e ion in the time of Charlemagne. In 820, Louis le Débonnaire, son of Charlemagne, conferred the vice-county of Béarn on the son of the Duke of Gascony, and it continued in the po e ion of his family till 1134. By failure of the male line of his posterity it pa ed into other families, as those of the Viscounts of Gavaret, the Monçades, who were among the chief nobles of Catalonia, and the Counts of Foix. These last acquired po e ion of the district of Bigorre, and intermarried with the royal family of Navarre. By this intermarriage the kingdom of Navarre, the principality of B. , and the counties of Foix and Bigorre, came into the hands of one po e or. On the failure of heirs male they were conveyed by marriage into the family of D'Albret, and augmented by the inheritance of that family. Of this family sprang Henry IV., who inherited the country of B. and Lower Navarre, and, as it seems, of Foix, with the title of King of Navarre; but the country of Upper Navarre, south of the Pyrenees, had been wrested from his great-grandfather by the ambition of Ferdinand V., King of Aragon. On the acce ion of Henry to the throne of France, B. was united with France, and has continued to be so united ever since. It was one of the provinces which enjoyed the privilege of a local House of A embly of the nobility, clergy, and commons. Bearn, (Cape,) a promontory in the dep. Pyrénées Orient a les, France; Lat. 42° 31′ N.; Lon. 3o 7′ 30′′ E. Height of lighthouse, 751 feet above the level of the sea. Bear River, in California , rises in the N. of the State, on the Sierra Nevada, and empties itself into Feather River, 31 m. below Marysville. Bear, or Utah River, a stream in Utah. which rises near Lat. 41° N., Lon. 111° W., and flowing N.N.W. and S.W., falls into the Great Salt Lake, after a course of about 400 m.