These are the meanings of the letters RENIABG when you unscramble them.
- Bearing (n.)
Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.
- Bearing (n.)
Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
- Bearing (n.)
Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
- Bearing (n.)
Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
- Bearing (n.)
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.
- Bearing (n.)
The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
- Bearing (n.)
The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
- Bearing (n.)
The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
- Bearing (n.)
The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
- Bearing (n.)
The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
- Bearing (n.)
The portion of a support on which anything rests.
- Bearing (n.)
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.
- Bearing (n.)
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.
- Bearing (n.)
The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.
- Bearing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Bear