[bair-er] 
| 1. | a person or thing that carries, upholds, or brings: dozens of bearers on the safari. |
| 2. | the person who presents an order for money or goods: Pay to the bearer. |
| 3. | a tree or plant that yields fruit or flowers. |
| 4. | the holder of rank or office; incumbent. |
| 5. | pallbearer. |
| 6. | (esp. in India) a native boy or man employed as a personal or household servant. |
| 7. | Printing.
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| 8. | a joistlike member supporting the floorboards of a scaffold. |
| 9. | Furniture. bearing rail. |
[fur-ni-cher] | 1. | the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like. |
| 2. | fittings, apparatus, or necessary accessories for something. |
| 3. | equipment for streets and other public areas, as lighting standards, signs, benches, or litter bins. |
| 4. | Also called bearer, dead metal. Printing. pieces of wood or metal, less than type high, set in and about pages of type to fill them out and hold the type in place in a chase. |
| bear·er (bâr'ər) n.
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