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The fold of the peritoneum supporting the oviduct.

A support for the center of a tunnel.

benches, the benches in the House of Commons occupied by members of the cabinet and their supporters; -- also, the persons occupying them. "Very solid and very brilliant talents distinguish the ministerial benches." Burke.

A supporter of the ministers, or the party in power.

at of a church stall (see Stall). It was intended, the seat being turned up, to give some support to a worshiper when standing. Called also misericordia.

expressed by eighteen times the load which is required to break a bar of one inch square, supported flatwise at two points one foot apart, and loaded in the middle between the points of support. Rankine.

The crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind. Cross moline (Her.), a cross each arm of which is divided at the end into two rounded branches or divisions.

Round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof; -- said esp. of a temple.

A circular temple consisting of a roof supported on columns, without a cella.

Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.

; moral considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral pressure or support.

Placed on a suitable support, or fixed in a setting; as, a mounted gun; a mounted map; a mounted gem.

The act of supporting or defending. [Obs.]

inspection, exercise, or the like; to come together as parts of a force or body; as, his supporters mustered in force. "The mustering squadron." Byron.

ed-eyed medusa. (Zoöl.) See Hydromedusa. -- Naked flooring (Carp.), the timberwork which supports a floor. Gwilt. -- Naked mollusk (Zoöl.), a nudibranch. -- Naked wood (Bot.), a large rhamnaceous tree (Colibrina reclinata) of Southern Florida and the West Indies, having a hard and heavy heartwood, which takes a fine…

A supporter of the dynasty of the Napoleons.

Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.

One of the chitinous supports, or veins, in the wings of incests.

The delicate connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord.

, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually undermined by the removal of the shale. See Chart of Geology.