Part 976

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Stock Exchange)</fld> <def>A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.</def>

<note>&hand; The <i>bears</i> and <i>bulls</i> of the Stock Exchange, whose interest it is, the one to depress, and the other to raise, stocks, are said to be so called in allusion to the bear's habit of pulling down, and the bull's of tossing up.</note>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Mach.)</fld> <def>A portable punching machine.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.</def>

<cs><col>Australian bear</col>. <cd><fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> See <er>Koala</er>.</cd> -- <col>Bear baiting</col>, <cd>the sport of baiting bears with dogs.</cd> -- <col>Bear caterpillar</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>the hairy larva of a moth, esp. of the genus <spn>Euprepia</spn>.</cd> -- <col>Bear garden</col>. <cd><sd>(a)</sd> A place where bears are kept for diversion or fighting. <sd>(b)</sd> Any place where riotous conduct is common or permitted. <i>M. Arnold</i>.</cd> -- <col>Bear leader</col>, <cd>one who leads about a performing bear for money; hence, a facetious term for one who takes charge of a young man on his travels.</cd></cs>

<h1>Bear</h1> <Xpage=128>

<hw>Bear</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <fld>(Stock Exchange)</fld> <def>To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; <as>as, to <ex>bear</ex> a railroad stock; to <ex>bear</ex> the market.</as></def>

<h1>Bear, Bere</h1> <Xpage=128>

<hw><hw>Bear</hw>, <hw>Bere</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>bere</ets>. See <er>Barley</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (<spn>Hord. vulgare</spn>).</def> <mark>[Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]</mark>

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<hw>Bear"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Bear"a*bly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Bearberry</h1> <Xpage=128>

<hw>Bear"ber*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A trailing plant of the heath family (<spn>Arctostaphylos uva-ursi</spn>), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.</def>

<h1>Bearbind</h1> <Xpage=128>

<hw>Bear"bind`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The bindweed (<spn>Convolvulus arvensis</spn>).</def>

<h1>Beard</h1> <Xpage=128>

<hw>Beard</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>berd</ets>, AS. <ets>beard</ets>; akin to Fries. <ets>berd</ets>, D. <ets>baard</ets>, G. <ets>bart</ets>, Lith. <ets>barzda</ets>, OSlav. <ets>brada</ets>, Pol. <ets>broda</ets>, Russ. <ets>boroda</ets>, L. <ets>barba</ets>, W. <ets>barf</ets>. Cf. 1st <er>Barb</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.</def> <sd>(d)</sd> <def>The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.</def> <sd>(e)</sd> <def>The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.</def> <sd>(f)</sd> <def>In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; <as>as, the <ex>beard</ex> of grain</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>An imposition; a trick.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<cs><col>Beard grass</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a coarse, perennial grass of different species of the genus <i>Andropogon<i>.</cd> -- <col>To one's beard</col>, <cd>to one's face; in open defiance.</cd></cs>

<h1>Beard</h1> <Xpage=128>