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The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.

ow, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.

ith a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.

, v. t. Etym: [Cf. OIcel. berja to strike.] To pierce. [Obs.] Chaucer.

, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce. Truth shall retire Bestuck with slanderous darts. Milton.

A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain. Shak.

A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them. Hence: Anything which smites without penetrating. Shak.

Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe; as, a bitter cold day.

A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast. [U. S.]

An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a

ning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank. I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored. Shak.

An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.

To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.

the passage of armies; also, a floating structure connected by a cable with an anchor or pier up stream, and made to pass from bank to bank by the action of the current or other means. -- Girder bridge or Truss bridge, a bridge formed by girders, or by trusses resting upon abutments or piers. -- Lattice bridge, a br…

A copier of a manuscript.

To spit; to pierce as with a spit. I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point. Shak.

together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.

united in a bundle, no strength could bend. Goldsmith. Bundle pillar (Arch.), a column or pier, with others of small dimensions attached to it. Weale.

A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.

f cabbage and other cruciferous plants. -- Cabbage butterfly (Zoöl.), a white butterfly (Pieris rapæ of both Europe and America, and the Allied P. oleracea, a native American species) which, in the larval state, devours the leaves of the cabbage and the turnip. See Cabbage worm, below. -- Cabbage Fly (Zoöl.), a small…