[f. BEAR v. + (Romanic suffix) -ANCE. Cf. abearance, forbearance.]
1. Endurance, patient suffering. arch.
1725. Bailey, Erasm. Colloq., 577. Their minds are inured to temperance and bearance.
2. A bearing (in mechanism).
1834. Galloway, Hist. Steam Eng., 214. Two circular pieces or valves k, one of brass and the other of iron, are placed on the bearance.
1851. Coal-tr. Terms Northumbld. & Durh., 49. The part of a … coal-tub frame to which the bearances for the wheels are attached.
