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( Zool.) a wild goose, Anser Segetum. Bean's Corners, in Maine, a P. O. of Franklin co. Bean's Station, in Tenne ee, a post-village of Granger co., 226 m. E. of Nashville, and 2 from the Gap of Clinch Mountain. There are mineral springs here. On the 14th Dec., 1863, a conflict took place near Bean's Station, between the Confederates under General Long street and a body of National cavalry under Shackle ford, Wolford, Graham, and Foster. The contest was somewhat sanguinary, Shackle ford, who was in chief command of the Union troops, losing about 200 men. Long street's lo , it was computed, was much greater. The contest was indecisive. The Nationals were pushed back nearly a mile, but Long street being unable to follow up his advantage, fell back toward Bull's Gap. Bean-King's Festival, a social rite principally observed in France, from which country it would seem to have been transplanted to Germany. On the evening of Twelfth Day, (q. v..) or, as the Germans call it, (in allusion to the legend, that the wise men of the East who came to worship Christ were three kings,) Three Kings' Day, ( Dreikönigs - Tag , ) companies a emble to spend a few hours in mirthful relaxation. A large cake is baked, with a bean hidden somewhere in it. The cake is then divided into pieces, each person present receiving one, and whoever obtains the piece with the bean is king for the year. In this capacity, he holds a mock court, and receives the homage of the company, who also amuse themselves with other diversions. The Bean King, however, is compelled to pay for his dignity, for he has to give an entertainment on the next Twelfth Night, that an opportunity may be afforded to choose another king. In France, this custom was at an earlier period so common, that even the court indulged in it, although the Church, in the 17th c., exerted itself zealously for its suppre ion. The opinion that the B. K. F. owes its origin to the Roman Saturnalia, when even the children, partaking in the universal glee, were wont to elect a king, is not destitute of probability. Bear, ( bār ,) v. a. [A.S. beran, beoran; Goth. bairan ; Lat. fero ; Gr. phero , from the root ber ; Sanskr. bhri .] To carry; support; sustain; uphold; as, to bear a burden. "And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of." - Shake . -To convey; conduct; bring: carry; remove. "My My me age to the ghost of Priam bear; Tell him a new Achilles sent thee there." - Dryden. -To carry as a mark of authority, distinction, or dignity. "And thus he bore without abuse The grand old name of gentleman." - Tennyson. -To have or po e mentally; to carry in the mind; to cherish; as love, hate. "Darah, the eldest, bears a generous mind, But to implacable revenge inclined." - Dryden. -To endure; suffer; undergo; tolerate; permit without resentment; as, to bear an affront. "But now I'll bear no more, nor here remain, If there be law or lawyers in all Spain." - Byron. -To be answerable or responsible; as, to bear the blame, cost, . "O more than madmen! you yourselves shall bear The guilt of blood and sacrilegious war." - Dryden. -To show or exhibit; to advance or bring forward; to relate; as, to bear evidence. -To maintain; to carry on, or keep up. "Far as the breeze can bear , the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home." - Byron. -To admit, or be capable of; to suffer or sustain without violence or change. "To bear is to conquer our fate." - Campbell. -To behave; to conduct; to deport one's self; to act in any character; as, he bears himself like a hero. "So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone." - Shaks. -To supply with; to afford; to attend. "His faithful dog shall bear him company." - Pope. -To produce or bring forth; to give birth to; as, to bear fruit, to bear children. "The same Æneas, whom fair Venus bore To fam'd Anchises on th' Idean shore." - Dryden. To bear a hand. ( Naut .) To help; render a istance; go to work; as, "Bear a hand there!" - To bear off . Το keep from reproach; to restrain. - ( Naut . ) To hold at a distance; to keep clear from contact with anything; as, to bear off a boat. To bear the bell. See BEARING THE BELL, and BELL. To bear a body. ( Painting .) A color is said to bear a body in painting, when it is capable of being ground so fine, and mixing with the oil so entirely, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same color. To bear down. To crush down by force; to overthrow; to demolish; as, " borne down by the flying." -Sir W. Scott . To bear hard. To importunate; to pre or urge; as, "Though he bear me hard . " - Ben Jonson. To bear out. To support, maintain, or defend to the last. "I hope your warrant will bear out the deed." - Shaks. To bear through. To conduct, or manage. IMG:content-0565.png:[blocks in formation] "These men bear hard on the suspected party, pursue her close through all her windings." - Add is on. -To take effect; to succeed; as, "He should want to bring all our matters to bear." - Guardian. ( Naut .) To be situated as to the point of the compa , with regard to another object; as, the land bears W. by S. -To refer to; to relate; - with with , upon, or against. "The sides bearing one against the other." - Bishop Burnet. -To render or carry news or intelligence. To bear against. To advance forward or approach for attack. "As a lion, bounding in his way, With force augmented bears against his prey." - Dryden. (Naut.) To bear up or away . To change the course of a ship, in order to make her run before the wind after sailing for some time upon a side wind. To bear in with the land . To steer a ve el towards the land. - To bear off from the land . To steer a ship from the land, lest she should accidentally run aground while under sail.- То bear down upon the enemy. To have the advantage of the wind; or being to windward, to approach the enemy by sailing large or from the wind. To bear back . To retreat. - To bear up. To have fortitude; not to sink, faint, or fail; to be firm; to be supported; as, to bear up under pain. "It shows a greatne of soul that they bear up against the storms of fortune." Broome. - To bear upon or against . To lean upon or against. - To bear upon. To act upon; as, to bring a ship's broadside to bear upon a fort. - To bear up to . To tend, or move towards; as, "Sometimes bearing up to one another." Boyle. To bear with. To endure anything unpleasant; to forbear to resent or punish; to be indulgent to. 4. The Grizzly Bear, Ursus horibilis. This species in habits the Rocky Mountains of America, and the hill a dipping into the tracts of Oregon and Brit. Columbia; and is, of all the tribe, the most savage and ferocious, the most dreadful in size and strength, and the most terrible in ferocity of nature. The force of his hug is enormous, and it is a erted that no animal it could grasp could outlive the deadly compre ion of its vicelike grip. 5. The Malay, or Asiatic Bear, Ursus labiatus. The Asiatic or long-lipped bear is a native of the mountainous parts of India, and feeds on white ants, rice, honey, the palm fruit, berries, . This species is timid and inoffensive, burrows in the ground, and lives in pairs together with their cubs, which, when alarmed, leap upon their parents' backs, and keep firm hold while the dam and sire jog off at a heavy trot to a place of safety. 6. The Syrian Bear, Ursus Syriacus. The she-bears which came out of the woods, "and tare forty and two" of the mockers of Elisha (2 Kings ii. 24), are probably the first bears on record. This species closely resembles the Ursus arctos. (Astron.) See URSA. ( Naut .) A square piece of wood, made heavy by pieces of iron attached to it, for cleaning a ship's deck. (Com.) A term used on the Stock Exchange, and applied to one who, having sold stock or shares which he does not po e , is anxious that such securities should decline in value, so that he may be enabled to buy at a profit. The term is said to derive its origin from the story of the man who sold the bear-skin before he had killed the bear. - See BEARISH; BULL. "Bear with me, then, if lawful what I ask." - Milton . Bear, n. [A.S. bera ; Ger. bär ; Du. beer .] A well-known quadruped, constituting the genus Ursus , in the family Urside. There are several species of bears. Of all the Carnivora they are the most omnivorous in their diet, some of them living almost entirely upon vegetable food, and nearly all being capable of supporting themselves upon it; even the most carnivorous of them, however, will seldom attack man, unle provoked to do so by aggre ion, or strongly incited by hunger; but when attacked, they prove themselves very formidable opponents. They have six incisor and two canine teeth in each jaw, twelve molars in the upper and fourteen in the lower jaw; pendactyle, or five-toed feet, armed with strong claws, but which, not being retractile, are more calculated for digging and climbing, than for tearing prey. For the most part, bears are unsocial animals, frequenting the rece es of mountains and caverns, and the depths of the forests. During the winter they lay up in caves and hollow trees, pa ing that inclement Bay. season almost without food, and in a comparatively dor- Bear, in Wisconsin , a post-office of Rich land co. mant state. In Europe, Asia, and America, bears are Bear, Bere. [A. S. bere .] ( Bot . ) See HORDEUM. pretty widely diffused, but in Africa they are more Bear'able, a . That can be borne or endured; tolerable. rarely found. In the Alpine regions the bear is brown; Bear'ably, adv . In a bearable manner. in some other parts of Europe, black; and in some parts