a. and adv. [f. BEAR sb.1 + LIKE.] Like, or after the manner of, a bear; rough, rude.
1605. Shaks., Macb., V. vii. 2. I cannot flye, But Beare-like I must fight the course.
1663. Gerbier, Counsel, D iij a. Some of them Bear-like-whelps (by licking and smoothing) have gotten some fashionable like shape.
1823. Scott, in Lockhart (1839), VII. 174. I was rather a Bear-like nurse for such a lamb-like charge.
