Obs. rare. [f. the vb.] Bearing, gesture, action, behavior.

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c. 1315.  Shoreham, Poems, 60. And ȝef the man other that wyf By cheaunce doumbe were, ȝef may wyten hare assent By soum other abere.

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1655.  H. Vaughan, Silex Scint (1858), II. 149. I met with a dead man, Who, noting well my vain abear, Thus unto me began.

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