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A substance in which medicine is taken. (more info) 1. That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically, a means of conveyance upon

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A substance in which medicine is taken. (more info) 1. That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically, a means of conveyance upon land. 2. That which is used as the instrument of conveyance or communication; as, matter is the vehicle of energy. A simple style forms the best vehicle of thought to a popular assembly. Wirt.

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  • CARRIAGEABLE
    Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
  • BEARISH
    Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
  • BEARWARD
    A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
  • BEAR
    produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. gebären, Goth. baíran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. bära, Dan. bære, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. , OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. 1. To support or sustain; to hold
  • BEAR'S-BREECH
    See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
  • CONDUCTIVITY
    The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces
  • BEAR'S-EAR
    A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf.
  • BEARDLESSNESS
    The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
  • BEARABLE
    Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv.
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • CARRIAGE
    carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
  • CONVEYANCER
    One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. Burrill.
  • BEHAVIOR
    Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. A gentleman that is very singular
  • BEARDIE
    The bearded loach of Europe.
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • BEARDLESS
    1. Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful. 2. Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.
  • BEARING CLOTH
    A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. Shak.
  • CONDUCTRESS
    A woman who leads or directs; a directress.
  • CONDUCTOR
    The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director. Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryden. 2. One in charge of a public conveyance, as
  • CONDUCTIBILITY
    1. Capability of being conducted; as, the conductibility of heat or electricity. 2. Conductivity; capacity for receiving and transmitting.
  • WATER-BEARER
    The constellation Aquarius.
  • SAFE-CONDUCT
    That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
  • SHIELD-BEARER
    Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • SEABEARD
    A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
  • DOWNBEAR
    To bear down; to depress.
  • BLUEBEARD
    The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
  • ANT-BEAR
    An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.
  • GRAYBEARD
    An old man. Shak.
  • MISBEAR
    To carry improperly; to carry wrongly; to misbehave. Chaucer.
  • FORKBEARD
    A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard.
  • PALLBEARER
    One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
  • UNDERBEARER
    One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall.
  • ABEARANCE
    Behavior. Blackstone.
  • RECARRIAGE
    Act of carrying back.
  • RUSH-BEARING
    A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church. Nares.
  • TALEBEARER
    One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief. Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father, did their best to inflame her resentment. Macaulay.

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