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bearward|ˈbɛəwɔːd|
Also 4 bereward, 5 barreward, 5–6 berward(e (see bearherd).
[f. bear n.1 + ward.]
1. The keeper of a bear, who leads it about for public exhibition of its tricks, etc.; also fig.
1399Pol. Poems (1859) I. 364 A bereward fond a rag. 1463Mann. & Househ. Exp. 156, I toke to the lord Stanley is berward..vjs. viijd. 1550Bale Eng. Votaries ii. 118 They played with those worldly rulers..as the bearwardes do with their apes and their beares. 1644Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 95 [They] command them, as our bearwards do the bears, with a ring through the nose. 1826Scott Woodst. ix, The army is your bear now, and old Noll is your bearward.
†2. The constellation Bootes, or its chief star Arcturus, from its position in reference to Ursa Major.
1483Cath. Angl. 23/1 Barrewarde, arctophilax. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 39 b, The rising of the star called the Berward. 1883Liddell & Scott Grk. Lex. s.v. ἄρκτος, The star just behind is called ἀρκτοῦρος, ἀρκτοϕύλαξ, the Bear-ward, or βοώτης, the Waggoner. |