Ant-bear
(n.) An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga. |
Bear
(v. t.) To support or sustain |
Bear
(v. t.) To support and remove or carry |
Bear
(v. t.) To conduct |
Bear
(v. t.) To possess and use, as power |
Bear
(v. t.) To sustain |
Bear
(v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction |
Bear
(v. t.) To possess mentally |
Bear
(v. t.) To endure |
Bear
(v. t.) To gain or win. |
Bear
(v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc. |
Bear
(v. t.) To render or give |
Bear
(v. t.) To carry on, or maintain |
Bear
(v. t.) To admit or be capable of |
Bear
(v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct. |
Bear
(v. t.) To behave |
Bear
(v. t.) To afford |
Bear
(v. t.) To bring forth or produce |
Bear
(v. i.) To produce, as fruit |
Bear
(v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden. |
Bear
(v. i.) To endure with patience |
Bear
(v. i.) To press |
Bear
(v. i.) To take effect |
Bear
(v. i.) To relate or refer |
Bear
(v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect. |
Bear
(v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else |
Bear
(n.) A bier. |
Bear
(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. |
Bear
(n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity |
Bear
(n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. |
Bear
(n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person. |
Bear
(n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market. |
Bear
(n.) A portable punching machine. |
Bear
(n.) A block covered with coarse matting |
Bear
(v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in |
Bear
(n.) Alt. of Bere |
Bear's-breech
(n.) See Acanthus, n., 1. |
Bear's-breech
(n.) The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium) |
Bear's-ear
(n.) A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf. |
Bear's-foot
(n.) A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic. |
Bear's-paw
(n.) A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament. |
Electro-polar
(a.) Possessing electrical polarity |
Polar
(a.) Of or pertaining to one of the poles of the earth, or of a sphere |
Polar
(a.) Of or pertaining to the magnetic pole, or to the point to which the magnetic needle is directed. |
Polar
(a.) Pertaining to, reckoned from, or having a common radiating point |
Polar
(n.) The right line drawn through the two points of contact of the two tangents drawn from a given point to a given conic section. The given point is called the pole of the line. If the given point lies within the curve so that the two tangents become imaginary, there is still a real polar line which does not meet the curve, but which possesses other properties of the polar. Thus the focus and directrix are pole and polar. There are also poles and polar curves to curves of higher degree than the second, and poles and polar planes to surfaces of the second degree. |
Sea bear
() Any fur seal. See under Fur. |
Sea bear
() The white bear. |
Water bear
() Any species of Tardigrada, 2. See Illust. of Tardigrada. |
Zinco-polar
(a.) Electrically polarized like the surface of the zinc presented to the acid in a battery, which has zincous affinity. |
| bear hug | a takeover bid so attractive that the directors of the target company must approve it or risk shareholder protest |
| bear hug | a wrestling hold with arms locked tightly around the opponent |
| bear cub | a young bear |
koala
koala bear
kangaroo bear
native bear
Phascolarctos cinereus | sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat, feeds on eucalyptus leaves and bark |
aardvark
ant bear anteater Orycteropus afer | nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites, sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata |
| bear | massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws |
brown bear
bruin Ursus arctos | large ferocious bear of Eurasia |
Syrian bear
Ursus arctos syriacus | yellowish-grey Syrian brown bear |
grizzly
grizzly bear
silvertip
silver-tip
Ursus horribilis
Ursus arctos horribilis | powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America |
Alaskan brown bear
Kodiak bear
Kodiak
Ursus middendorffi
Ursus arctos middendorffi | brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia |
American black bear
black bear Ursus americanus
Euarctos americanus | brown to black North American bear, smaller and less ferocious than the brown bear |
| cinnamon bear | reddish-brown color phase of the American black bear |
Asiatic black bear
black bear Ursus thibetanus
Selenarctos thibetanus | bear with a black coat living in central and eastern Asia |
ice bear
polar bear
Ursus Maritimus
Thalarctos maritimus | white bear of Arctic regions |
sloth bear
Melursus ursinus
Ursus ursinus | common coarse-haired long-snouted bear of southentral Asia |
| bear claw | claw of a bear, often used in jewelry |
woolly bear
woolly bear caterpillar | caterpillar of numerous moths characterized by a dense coat of woolly hairs, feed on plants and some are destructive pests |
| woolly bear moth | larva of moth of the family Arctiidae |
polar hare
Arctic hare
Lepus arcticus | a large hare of northern North America, it is almost completely white in winter |
wolverine carcajou
skunk bear
Gulo luscus | stocky shaggyoated North American carnivorous mammal |
ant bear giant anteater
great anteater
tamanoir
Myrmecophaga jubata | large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws, of South America |
kinkajou honey bear
potto Potos flavus
Potos caudivolvulus | arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail |
lesser panda
red panda
panda bear cat
cat bear
Ailurus fulgens | reddish-brown Old World raccoon-like carnivore, in some classifications considered unrelated to the giant pandas |
giant panda
panda panda bear
coon bear
Ailuropoda melanoleuca | large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet, in some classifications considered a member of the bear family or of a separate family Ailuropodidae |
| bear claw | an incised design resembling the claw of a bear, used in Native American pottery |
| teddy teddy bear | plaything consisting of a child's toy bear (usually plush and stuffed with soft materials) |
| freedom to bear arms | a right guaranteed by the nd amendment to the US Constitution |
| polar body | a small cell containing little cytoplasm that is produced along with the oocyte and later discarded |
| polar coordinate | either of two values that locate a point on a plane by its distance from a fixed pole and its angle from a fixed line passing through the pole |
bear claw
bear paw | almond-flavored yeastaised pastry shaped in an irregular semicircle resembling a bear's claw |
| bear market | a market characterized by falling prices for securities |
| polar circle | a line of latitude at the north or south poles |
Frigid Zone
polar zone
polar region | the part of the Earth's surface forming a cap over a pole, characterized by frigid climate |
Great Bear
Ursa Major | a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star |
Little Bear
Ursa Minor | a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star |
| polar glacier | a glacier near the Arctic or Antarctic poles |
Polaris
North Star
pole star
polar star
polestar | the brightest star in Ursa Minor, at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper, the northern axis of the earth points toward it |
| bear | an investor with a pessimistic market outlook, an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price |
cold front
polar front | the front of an advancing mass of colder air |
stinking hellebore
bear's foot
setterwort
Helleborus foetidus | digitate-leaved hellebore with an offensive odor and irritant qualities when taken internally |
auricula
bear's ear
Primula auricula | yellow-flowered primrose native to Alps, commonly cultivated |
b common bearberry
red bearberry
wild cranberry
mealberry
hog cranberry
sand berry
sandberry
mountain box
bear's grape
creashak
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi | evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries, leaves turn red in autumn |
bear oak
Quercus ilicifolia | shrubby oak of southeastern United States usually forming dense thickets |
squaw grass
bear grass Xerophyllum tenax | plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy white flowers |
| bear grass Nolina microcarpa | stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers, southwestern United States and Mexico |
| bear grass Yucca glauca | yucca of west central United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers |
| bear grass Yucca smalliana | yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers |
bear's breech
bear's breeches
sea holly Acanthus mollis | widely cultivated southern European acanthus with whitish purple-veined flowers |
bear's-paw fern
Aglaomorpha meyeniana | epiphytic fern with large fronds, Taiwan and Philippines |
| polar opposition | an opposition that can be graded between two extremes or poles |