bear vb. (besides the mod. senses we find the foll.)
1.
to have as a member or part of
itself Wint. I. ii. 309,
3H6 V. i. 69
“the dearest blood your
bodies bear,”
Rom. I. iii. 29
“I do bear a
brain.”
2.
to contain (a meaning
or the like)
AYL. III. ii. 176
“more feet than the
verses would bear,”
1H4 IV. i. 20
“His letters bear his
mind,”
Ant. I. ii. 130,
Compl. 19
“often reading what
content it bears.”
3.
to carry as a
consequence Tim. I. i. 132.
4.
to sustain (a part),
keep going (the burden of a song) Tp. I. ii. 380, Wint. IV. iii. [iv.] 299
“I can bear my part,”
Lucr. 1132, &c.
5.
to carry on, conduct,
execute Ado II. iii. 240 [229],
John III. iv. 149
“This act so evilly
borne,”
H5 I. ii. 212,
Mac. III. vi. 3
“Things have been
strangely borne.”
6.
refl. (freq.) and
intr. to behave Meas. I. iii.
47 (Ff “beare”;
mod. edd. “bear me”),
H8 II. i. 30; also
occas. passive
Troil. II. iii. 252
“surly borne”
(=of surly behaviour).
