Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bear \Bear\, Bere \Bere\, n. [AS. bere. See {Barley}.] (Bot.)
   Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley,
   commonly the former ({Hord. vulgare}). [Obs. except in North
   of Eng. and Scot.]