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[BENSHAW.) ( Scotch.) *be-ant-ler, * be-an-cler, * be-an-kler, s. Obsolete forms of BEZANTLER (q. V.). bean-ý, a. [Eng. bean, s.; -y.] Spirited, fresh; in good condition (like a horse fed on beans). "The horses looked fresh and beany."-Daily News, July 27, 1870, p. 5. ( N.E.D. ) beär (1), *bêre, * bære, *beore, * bær-ěn, * bêr-ěn, * beir-en, bueren (pret. bore, bare, bar , * bear, bær , *ber; pa. par. born, borne) (sære, eore, eir, and uer as är), v.t. & i. [A.S. beran, beoran (pret. bær ; pa. par. boren ) = to bear; geberan = to bear; gebæran = to behave, to conduct one's self; aberan = to bear, carry, suffer; O.S. beran, giber an; O. Fries. & O. Icel. bera ; Sw. bära > Dan. bære ; Dut. baren = to give birth to, to bring forth; beuren = to lift; bæren = to carry, to bear; Goth. bairan = to carry; Ger. gebaren to bring forth; führen = to carry; O. L. Ger. beran; O. H. Ger. beran , per an = to bear; cogn. with Lat. fero = to bear or carry; pario = to bear: por to = to carry what is heavy; Gr. φέρω (pherō), φορέω (phoreo) = to bear or carry; βαρύς ( bar us ) = heavy, and βάρος ( baros ) = weight; Sansc. bhar , bharâmi, bibharmi = to carry, to sustain.) (BAIRN, BARINDE, BERINDE, BEAR (2), BERE, BIER, BIRTH, BURDEN.) A word of very various significations. Thus Watts says "We say to bear a burden, to bear sorrow or reproach, to bear a name, to bear a grudge, to bear fruit, or to bear children. The word bear is used in very different senses." IMG:content-1152.png:[blocks in formation] (1) (Of any mental or moral instead of any physical burden): To support, sustain, or carry. (a) To sustain, to maintain, to support. "For he always saw pa ing events, not in the point of view in which they commonly appear to one who bears a part in them, " -Macaulay : Hist. Eng, ch. ii. (b) To endure, to suffer to stand, to tolerate, without giving way under the load, or being otherwise injured by it. "I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able."-1 Cor . iii. 2. he could not bear the eyes of the bar and of the audience."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. v. (c) To endure without resentment; to tole- rate, to stand. "Not the gods, nor angry Jove will bear Thy lawle wand'ring walks in upper air." Dryden. (d) To suffer, to undergo; to be subjected to as a punishment, sickne , calamity, or lo . "I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more." Job xxxiv. 31. "That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the lo of it; of my hand didst thou re quire it." Gen. xxx i. 39. (e) To stand the temptation resulting from anything. "I was carried on to observe, how they did bear their fortunes, and how they did employ their times." -Bacon . IMG:content-1153.png:[blocks in formation] object of. "I'll be your father, and your brother too; Let me but bear your love, I'll bear your cares." Shakesp.: 2 Hen, IV., v. 2. (d) To po e as power. (Used specially in such phrases as "to bear sway.") "When vice prevails, and impious men bear away, The post of honour is a private station." Add is on: Cato. (e) To carry in the mind, to entertain, to harbour. (Used of good and of bad and indifferent emotions.) "That inviolable love I bear to the land of my nativity, prevailed upon me to engage in so bold an attempt."-Swift. "As for this gentleman, who is fond of her, she beareth him an invincible hatred."-Ibid. IMG:content-1154.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] (a) To give birth to, as the earth is poetically said to do to the animals and plants generated upon it, or as one's natal spot is said to give him birth. "Here dwelt the man divine whom Samos bore." Dryden. (b) To bring forth, produce, adduce, give. "There is another that beareth witne of me..." -John v. 32. III. Reflectively : To act; to behave. (The radical signification probably is to support or to carry one's self.) some good instruction give, How I may bear me here." Shakesp.: Temp ., 1. 2. "Hath he borne himself penitently in prison?"Shakesp.: Meas. for Meas., iv. 2. This sense appears to have been derived from A.S. bæran = to behave, to conduct one's self. (See etym.) IV. To weigh down, pre upon, drive, or urge. (Here the signification points not at the person sustaining the burden, but at the burden viewed as weighing down the person.) 1. To pre upon, even when motion or action on the part of the person thus pre ed does not follow. "Cæsar doth bear me hard; but he loves Brutus." Shakesp. Jul. Cæsar, 1. 2. "These men bear hard upon the suspected party, pursue her close through all her windings."-Add is on. 2. To drive or urge in some direction, as forward or backward. (a) Chiefly by physical means. [See C. 3, 4. IMG:content-1155.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1156.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To act upon, or against. [See C. 15.] "Spinola, with his shot, did bear upon those within, who appeared upon the wall."-Hayward. 4. To produce, to bring forth its like; to be fruitful. "A fruit-tree hath been blown up almost by the roots, and set up again, and the next year bear exceedingly."- Bacon . 5. To succeed, to take effect. "Having pawned a full suit of clothes for a sum of money, which my operator a ured me was the last he e should want to bring all all our matters to bear."Guardian. 6. To be situated with respect to. "At noon we perceived a low double land, bearing W.S. W., about ten leagues distant..." Walter: Anson's Voyage, 15th ed. (1780), p. 53. 7. To move in the direction of. C. In phrases in some of which bear is transitive, in others intransitive. 1. To bear against: (a) To be in contact with; to pre more or le forcibly against. "Because the operations to be performed by the teeth require a considerable strength in the instruments which move the lower jaw, nature hath provided this with strong muscles, to make it bear forcibly against the upper jaw."-Ray. "Upon the tops of mountains, the air which bears against the restagnant quicksilver is le pre ed."Boyle. (b) To move towards, to approach. 2. To bear away : (a) Trans.: To win, to carry away; as, for instance, a prize. "Because the Greek and Latin have ever borne away the prerogative from all other tongues, they shall serve as touchstones to make our trials by."- Camden , (b) In trans.: To move one's self off; to depart, to flee. "Never did men more joyfully obey. Or sooner understand the sign to fly: With such alacrity they bore away." Dryden. 3. To bear back or backward (trans.): Το thrust or drive back or backward by physical force. "Their broken oars, and floating planks, withstand Their pa age, while they labour to the land; And ebbing tides bear back upon th' uncertain sand." Dryden. "Clan-Alpine's best are backward borne ." Scott : Lady of the Lake, vi. 18. 4. To bear down (trans.): (a) Lit .: To thrust down by physical force. on land they were at first borne down by irresistible force."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. ii. (b) Fig .: To do so by other means. "Truth is borne down, attestations neglected, the testimony of sober persons despised."-Swift. (c) Naut.: To sail towards. (Followed by upon.) 5. To bear hand to: To support, to lend a istance to. ( Scotch .) "... to beare hand to the trueth..." - Bruce : Eleven Serm., F. 3, b. Bear a hand (without to ) is very common in English in the sense of help: " Bear a hand here!" 6. To bear in: To move in. "Whose navy like a stiff stretch'd cord did shew, Till he bore in, and bent them into flight." Dryden. 7. To bear in hand: To amuse with false pretences; to deceive; to accuse. "Your daughter, whom she bore in hand to love With such integrity, she did confe Was as a scorpion to her sight." Shakesp.: Cymb., v. 5. his sickne , age, and impotence, Was falsely borne in hand. 8. To bear off (trans.): Shakesp.: Hamlet , ii. 2. IMG:content-1157.png:[blocks in formation] "Syn the Balliol and his folk were Arywyd in to Scotland, As I have herd men bere on hand." 475 Wyntown, viii. 33, 64. (Jamie son) 10. To bear out (trans.): (a) To afford a warrant for; to give legit i mate defence, or at least excuse, for. "I hope your warrant will bear out the deed." Shakesp.: King John, iv. 1. (b) To support; to sustain by power or any other way than by legal or moral warrant. "Quoth Sidrophel, I do not doubt To find friends that will bear me out ." Hudibras "Company only can bear a man out in an ill thing." -South . (c) In trans.: To stand forth. "In a convex mirrour, we view the figures and all other things, which bear out with more life and strength than nature itself."-Dryden. 11. To bear the bell: To lead. (BELL, A., III., 4.] 12. To bear the cro ; to bear one's cro : (a) Lit. ( of Christ ): To endure the agonising physical and mental sufferings of which the cro was the symbol. "Submits to death, nay, bears the cro , In all its shame and woe." Cameron . (b) Fig . ( of His followers): Τo endure sufferings, especially those to which their devotion to their Divine Master may expose them. "And whosoever doth not bear his cro , and come after me, cannot be my disciple."- Luke xiv. 27. 13. To bear the sword: (a) Lit.: To carry or bear a sword for a longer or shorter time as the emblem of authority. "I do commit into your hand The unstain'd sword that you have us'd to bear." Shakesp.: 2 Hen . IV . , v. 2. (b) Fig.: To be in an office conferring authority, even when no sword is carried. "... for he [the magistrate] beareth not the sword in vain..."- Rom . xiii. 4. 14. To bear up ( trans. & in trans.): (1) Transitive: (a) Lit. To sustain anything by physical means, so that it cannot fall or sink. ". the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth." Gen. vii. 17. "And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up."- Judg . xvi. 29. (b) Fig.: To sustain any immaterial thing by suitable means. "A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings, but makes her rejoice in them." -Add is on. (2) Intransitive: (a) Lit .: To move upwards or onwards. "The oily drops swimming on the spirit of wine, moved restle ly to and fro, sometimes bearing up to one another, as if all were to unite into one body; and then falling off, and continuing to shift places."Boyle. (b) Fig .: To manifest fortitude, to be unmoved; to retain composure under calamity. "Yet, even against such accumulated disasters and disgraces, his vigorous and inspiring mind bore up. Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xxv. IMG:content-1158.png:[blocks in formation] An ( a ) Crabb thus distinguishes between to bear and to yield :-" Bear conveys the idea of creating within itself; yield , that of giving from itself. Animals bear their young; inanimate objects yield their produce. apple-tree bears apples; the earth yields fruits. Bear marks properly the natural power of bringing forth something of its own kind; yield is said of the result or quantum brought forth. Shrubs bear leaves, flowers, or berries, according to their natural properties; flowers yield seeds plentifully or otherwise as they are favoured by circumstances." (b) To bear, to carry, to convey, and to transport are thus discriminated:-"To bear is simply to put the weight of any substance upon one's self; to curry is to remove it from the spot where it was we always bear in The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia 476 carrying, but not vice vers a. That which cannot be easily borne must be burdensome to carry. Since bear is confined to personal service, it may be used in the sense of carry , when the latter implies the removal of anything by any other body. The bearer of a letter or parcel is he who carries it in his hand; the carrier of parcels is he who employs a conveyance. Convey and transport are species of carrying. Carry in its particular sense is employed either for personal exertions or actions performed by the help of other means. Convey and transport are employed for such actions as are performed not by immediate personal intervention or exertion: a porter carries goods on his knot; goods are conveyed in a waggon or cart; they are transported in a ve el. Convey expre es simply the mode of removing; transport annexes the ideas of place and distance. Merchants get conveyed into their warehouses goods which have been transported from distant countries." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.)