Obs. rare. [f. the vb.] Bearing, gesture, action, behavior.
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.
1655. H. Vaughan, Silex Scint (1858), II. 149. I met with a dead man, Who, noting well my vain abear, Thus unto me began.