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Supported; upheld.

A supporter.

A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.

ds on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs officers.

The skipjack (Sarda Mediterranea) of the Atlantic, an important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and (S. Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. They are large and active fishes, of a blue color with black oblique stripes.

Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe. Be you blithe and bonny. Shak. Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matiSir W. Scott.

A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.

The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

Caliber; importance. [Obs.] Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter. Shak.

annon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks. One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells. Tomlinson.

Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.

Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth. "The bosom of the ocean." Addison.

or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.

One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer. [Colloq.] Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottleholder of oppressed states. The London Times.

The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface. Barrels with the bottom knocked out. Macaulay. No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low…

A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.

A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift. Bowlder clay, the unstratified clay deposit of the Glacial or Drift epoch, often containing large numbers of bowlders. -- Bowlder wall, a wall constructed of large stones or bowlders.…

The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.

That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.

Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.