of bear-the manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.-patient endurance; suffering without complaint.-the situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection.-purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.-the act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.-that part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.-the portion of a support on which anything rests.-improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.-the part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.-the part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.-any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.-the situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was w. n. w.-the widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.-the line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.