bear, bier.
bear, beer.
bear, IV, 324, C 1: barley.
bear-seed, IV, 323, 6: barley; bear-seed time seems to refer to barley-harvest.
beare mercy, as the lawes will thee beare, V, [53], 98: have for (as in, bear malice, etc.).
beare, pret., II, 266, 30: bare.
beared, buried.
bearing arrow, III, 29, 150; 202, 33; 341, 53: “an arrow that carries well,” Percy; “an arrow made to carry especially straight,” Nares; but on the first occasion a broad arrow is used when “an arrow that carries well” (straight) is equally, or even more, necessary, and on the third a bearing and a broad arrow are used indifferently, III, 29, 153, 159; 341, 56. Perhaps a very long arrow, such as required to be carried in the hand. “Longe arrowes like standarts with socetts of stell for my Lord’s foutemen to bere in their hands, when they ryn with my Lorde” are noted as berrying arrows in the preparations for the Earl of Northumberland’s expedition to Terouenne, 5 Henry VIII. Dillon’s Fairholt’s Costume in England, II, 8, 1885. Mr C. J. Longman, himself an archer, remarking that a bearing arrow is used for a range of 20 score paces, III, 29, 148, 150, and a broad arrow for 6 score, 153, suggests that a bearing arrow was probably what is now called a flight-arrow,—a thin, light arrow with a tapering point for long shooting.
bearly, V, [219], 17: buirdly.
beat, IV, 379, 15: boot, recompense.