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A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture.

A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.

g some distance up the leg. The hunted red deer's undressed hide Their hairy buskins well supplied. Sir W. Scott.

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

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

idea common to these terms. A combination is an organized union of individuals for mutual support, in urging their demands or resisting the claims of others, and may be good or bad according to circumstances; as, a combiniation of workmen or of employers to effect or to prevent a chang in prices. A cabal is a secret as…

A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes. [R] Emerson.

sar or emperor, it has been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or support of such a system of government.

A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses.

Pyrenees, who until 1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths.

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

A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.

te herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.

made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc. [Eng.] The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. Beck (Draper's Dict. ).…

ower of producing heat; -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation.

A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to orgiginate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase. Dunglison.

s an army or travelers. Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together. Shak.

To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures (Print), figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics.

w restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework.

An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle.