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idge without arches is supported. Butment cheek (Carp.), the part of a mortised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear. Knight.

ounded; to abut. [Written also but.] And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground. Drayton.

A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region. The creek . . . passes by two remarkable buttes of red conglomerate. Ruxton.

The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump.

A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

Anything which supports or strengthens. "The ground pillar and buttress of the good old cause of nonconformity." South. Flying buttress. See Flying buttress.

A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding. Bower cable, the cable belonging to the bower anchor. -- Cable road, a railway on which the cars are moved by a continuously running endless rope operated by a statio…

The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.

A hole in the ground, or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry. Kane.

Idle talk; silly prattle. There is a buzz and cackle all around regarding the sermon. Thackeray.

A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument. Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn. Campbell.

sson (Engin.), a caisson, closed at the top but open at the bottom, and resting upon the ground under water. The pressure of air forced into the caisson keeps the water out. Men and materials are admitted to the interior through an air lock. See Lock.

A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.

The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet or column.

An instrument with four iron points, so disposed that, any three of them being on the ground, the other projects upward. They are scattered on the ground where an enemy's cavalry are to pass, to impede their progress by endangering the horses' feet.

sses with the figures of Christ and the thieves, often as large as life, and sometimes surrounded by figures of other personages who were present at the crucifixion.

A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papilæ.

The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc. Shzk.

tract of country; especially "Campagna di Roma." The extensive undulating plain which surrounds Rome.

Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground.