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A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms. Tennyson.

of a person or family, with its several charges and other furniture, as mantling, crest, supporters, motto, etc. -- Submarine, a water-tight dress or covering for a diver. See under Submarine.

ne who asserts or avers; one who maintains or vindicates a claim or a right; an affirmer, supporter, or vindicator; a defender; an asserter. The assertors of liberty said not a word. Macaulay. Faithful assertor of thy country's cause. Prior.

One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic Jews, and supported the Asmoneans.

To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak.

The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak.

Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. Beattie.

ance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Acts xvii. 31. Assurances of support came pouring in daily. Macaulay.

Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides. Oxf. Gloss.

of attesting; testimony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence. The truth appears from the attestation of witnesses, or of the proper officer. The subscription of a name to a writing as a witness, is an attestation.

That which, or one who, is claimed or appealed to in support of opinions, actions, measures, etc. Hence:

The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body. Gray.

A support or resource in reserve. This project Should have a back or second, that might hold, If this should blast in proof. Shak.

A board which supports the back wen one is sitting;

Support or aid given to a person or cause.

from the masthead to the side of a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast. [ Often used in the plural.]

A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc.

To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.

A structure in form of a canopy, sometimes supported by columns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's.

One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge.