bear | noun (n.) A bier. |
| noun (n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects. |
| noun (n.) 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. |
| noun (n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. |
| noun (n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person. |
| noun (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market. |
| noun (n.) A portable punching machine. |
| noun (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Bere |
| verb (v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up. |
| verb (v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey. |
| verb (v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. |
| verb (v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise. |
| verb (v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription. |
| verb (v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name. |
| verb (v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor |
| verb (v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer. |
| verb (v. t.) To gain or win. |
| verb (v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc. |
| verb (v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward. |
| verb (v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have. |
| verb (v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change. |
| verb (v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct. |
| verb (v. t.) To behave; to conduct. |
| verb (v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with. |
| verb (v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest. |
| verb (v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. |
| verb (v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden. |
| verb (v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient. |
| verb (v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against. |
| verb (v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear. |
| verb (v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question? |
| verb (v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect. |
| verb (v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E. |
| verb (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market. |
clear | noun (n.) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear. |
| superlative (superl.) Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded. |
| superlative (superl.) Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable. |
| superlative (superl.) Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head. |
| superlative (superl.) Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful. |
| superlative (superl.) Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous. |
| superlative (superl.) Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand. |
| superlative (superl.) Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber. |
| superlative (superl.) Free from guilt or stain; unblemished. |
| superlative (superl.) Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit. |
| superlative (superl.) Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt. |
| superlative (superl.) Free from embarrassment; detention, etc. |
| adverb (adv.) In a clear manner; plainly. |
| adverb (adv.) Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off. |
| verb (v. t.) To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds. |
| verb (v. t.) To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse. |
| verb (v. t.) To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous. |
| verb (v. t.) To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious. |
| verb (v. t.) To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out. |
| verb (v. t.) To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed. |
| verb (v. t.) To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef. |
| verb (v. t.) To gain without deduction; to net. |
| verb (v. i.) To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often followed by up, off, or away. |
| verb (v. i.) To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free. |
| verb (v. i.) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house. |
| verb (v. i.) To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day. |
ear | noun (n.) The organ of hearing; the external ear. |
| noun (n.) The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only. |
| noun (n.) That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell. |
| noun (n.) Same as Acroterium. |
| noun (n.) Same as Crossette. |
| noun (n.) Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention. |
| noun (n.) The spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels. |
| verb (v. t.) To take in with the ears; to hear. |
| verb (v. i.) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain; as, this corn ears well. |
| verb (v. t.) To plow or till; to cultivate. |
fear | noun (n.) A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion. |
| noun (n.) A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread. |
| noun (n.) Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng. |
| noun (n.) Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth. |
| noun (n.) That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness. |
| noun (n.) To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude. |
| noun (n.) To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of. |
| noun (n.) To be anxious or solicitous for. |
| noun (n.) To suspect; to doubt. |
| noun (n.) To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear. |
| verb (v. i.) To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil. |
gear | noun (n.) Clothing; garments; ornaments. |
| noun (n.) Goods; property; household stuff. |
| noun (n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material. |
| noun (n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping. |
| noun (n.) Warlike accouterments. |
| noun (n.) Manner; custom; behavior. |
| noun (n.) Business matters; affairs; concern. |
| noun (n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively. |
| noun (n.) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe. |
| noun (n.) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear. |
| noun (n.) See 1st Jeer (b). |
| noun (n.) Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. |
| verb (v. t.) To dress; to put gear on; to harness. |
| verb (v. t.) To provide with gearing. |
| verb (v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear. |
rear | noun (n.) The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front. |
| noun (n.) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest. |
| adjective (a.) Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company. |
| adverb (adv.) Early; soon. |
| verb (v. t.) To place in the rear; to secure the rear of. |
| verb (v. t.) To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith. |
| verb (v. t.) To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another. |
| verb (v. t.) To lift and take up. |
| verb (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring. |
| verb (v. t.) To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle. |
| verb (v. t.) To rouse; to stir up. |
| verb (v. i.) To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect. |
spear | noun (n.) A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: A spearman. |
| noun (n.) A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals. |
| noun (n.) A shoot, as of grass; a spire. |
| noun (n.) The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4. |
| noun (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod. |
| verb (v. t.) To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish. |
| verb (v. i.) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire. |
tear | noun (n.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids. |
| noun (n.) Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins. |
| noun (n.) That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge. |
| noun (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure. |
| noun (n.) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass. |
| verb (v. t.) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh. |
| verb (v. t.) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions. |
| verb (v. t.) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home. |
| verb (v. t.) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair. |
| verb (v. t.) To move violently; to agitate. |
| verb (v. i.) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily. |
| verb (v. i.) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave. |