bearing feeler (baringfe "ler)

An automatic alarm for signaling the overheating of a journal-bearing. A plug of fusible material connected with the bearing melts at a given temperature, and by suitable connections is made to sound an alarm. Shak ., 2 Hen. VI., v. 1. Those who worke with them co'mand them as our beare wards do the beares, with a ring through the nose, and a cord. Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 21, 1644. I entreated a bearward one day to come down with the dogs of some four parishes that way. B. Jonson, Epicœne, i. 1. bear-whelp (bar'hwelp), n. [ bere - hwelp ; bear2 + whelp .] The whelp of a bear. An unlicked bear - whelp . Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iii. 2. The Rhamnus Pur bearwood (bar'wud), n. shiana , a shrub or small tree of the Pacific bearing-neck (bar'ing-nek), n . The part which turns within the bra es of the pedestal of a States. See bearberry , 2. car-truck, and sustains the strain; the journal of a shaft.