To bear, convey, or take along in coming; take to the place where the receiver is, or where the bearer stays or abides; fetch: as, bring it hither, or to me; to bring a book home.To cause to come or accrue; be the means of conveying possession of; impart; devolve upon: as, the transaction brought great profit; his wife brought him a large dowry.To cause to come or pass, as to a new place, state, or condition; impel; draw on; lead: as, to bring one to a better mind.To aid in coming or passing, as to one's home or destination; conduct; attend; accompany.To convey or put forth as a product; bear or be the bearer of; yield: as, the land brings good harvests.To convey to the mind or knowledge; make known on coming, or coming before one; bear or impart a declaration of.To fetch or put forward before a tribunal; make a presentation of; institute; declare in or as if in court: as, to bring an action or an indictment against one; the jury brought the prisoner in guilty.To cause to become; make to be.To cause to fall; hence, of game, to kill.To bring to light; disclose; reveal.To adduce: as, to bring forward arguments in support of a scheme.To impress upon the feeling; cause to be felt: as, he brought it home to them very vividly; in preaching, strive to bring the truth home to the hearers.To supply; furnish; yield: especially used in speaking of a revenue, rent, or income produced from a certain source.To introduce; especially, to introduce to the notice of a legislature: as, to bring in a bill.To place in a particular condition or station.(et) To reduce within the limits of law and government.To procure to be acquitted; clear from condemnation; cause to escape. To dissuade; change, as from an opinion or purpose; cause to abandon.To cause to begin: as, to bring on a battle.To originate or cause to exist: as, to bring on a disease.To induce; lead on.To find by calculation or argument; deduce; infer.To publish: as, to bring out a new edition of a book.To convert by persuasion or other means; draw to a new party; cause to change sides or an opinion.The Protestant clergy will find it perhaps no difficult matter to bring great numbers over to the church.To lead up to in an indirect manner: as, he brought round the conversation to his favorite topic.To recover, as from a swoon.Nautical: To heave to; force (another ship) to heave to or stop. To bend (a sail) to its yard or gaff.To bring into range, or the range of: as, to bring a gun to bear upon a target.In printing, to give the proper light and shade to, as a print of an engraving, by means of a suitable distribution of pressure in the press, produced by overlays; also, to equalize the pressure upon, as any part of a form on a press, by underlaying it with cardboard or paperIn lithography, to make apparent; make visible, as a drawing or a greasy spot upon the stoneTo rear; nurture; care for during adolescence: used with reference to the needs of both the body and the mind.To introduce to notice or consideration: as, to bring up a subject in conversation. To cause to advance near: as, to bring up forces, or the reserves.Nautical, to stop (a ship's headway) by letting go an anchor or by running her ashore. To pull up (a horse); cause to stop: often with short; as, he brought up his horse short (that is, caused it to stop suddenly); hence, figuratively, to stop suddenly in any career or course of action; bring before a magistrate; pull up.