2. Object of abhorrence. Isa. lxvi. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 1 feeling or showing a deep love and devotion to. her adoring parents
Syn. -- doting, fond, lovesome [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be tied to a wife's apron strings or
To be tied to a mother's apron strings, to be unduly controlled by a wife or mother. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was so made that he could not submit to be tied to the apron strings even of the best of wives. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ashlar when in thin slabs and made to serve merely as a case to the body of the wall. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Carp.) The short upright pieces between the floor beams and rafters in garrets. See Ashlar, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which contraction . . . astringeth the moisture of the brain and thereby sendeth tears into the eyes. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bind by moral or legal obligation. Wolsey. [ 1913 Webster ]

External astringents are called styptics. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It was a large beam, with a head of iron, which was sometimes made to resemble the head of a ram. It was suspended by ropes to a beam supported by posts, and so balanced as to swing backward and forward, and was impelled by men against the wall. Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally. [ 1913 Webster ]

I know him by his bearing. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Patient endurance; suffering without complaint. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

But of this frame, the bearings and the ties,
The strong connections, nice dependencies. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ His mother ] in travail of his bearing. R. of Gloucester. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Arch.) (a) 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. (b) The portion of a support on which anything rests. (c) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Mach.) (a) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal. (b) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Her.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. [ 1913 Webster ]

A carriage covered with armorial bearings. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Naut.) (a) 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. (b) pl. The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. (c) pl. The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ball bearings. See under Ball. --
To bring one to his bearings, to bring one to his senses. --
To lose one's bearings, to become bewildered. --
To take bearings, to ascertain by the compass the position of an object; to ascertain the relation of one object or place to another; to ascertain one's position by reference to landmarks or to the compass; hence (Fig.), to ascertain the condition of things when one is in trouble or perplexity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Deportment; gesture; mien; behavior; manner; carriage; demeanor; port; conduct; direction; relation; tendency; influence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. someone who plays musical handbells. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Altercation; wrangling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the application of engineeering principles to solve problems in medicine, such as the design of artificial limbs or organs; -- called also biomedical engineering. [ PJC ]

3. the branch of engineering dealing with the application of biological processes to the solution of practical problems, such as the manufacture of products by fermentation, the production and use of enzymes for various purposes, the use of microorganisms in environmental cleanup, etc.; -- called also biotechnology. [ PJC ]

2. intensely hot. blistering sun
Syn. -- blistery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. very fast; as, a blistering pace.
Syn. -- red-hot, scorching. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

He spake well save that his blubbering interrupted him. Winthrop. [ 1913 Webster ]