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indrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon.

An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are bu…

oll-like; turbinate; -- applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers.

Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact. Conditions of peace certainly turn upon events of war. Swift.

To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally; as, many plants twine.

Any plant which twines about a support.

Winding around something; twisting; embracing; climbing by winding about a support; as, the hop is a twinning plant.

num. Tympanic bone (Anat.), a bone of the skull which incloses a part of the tympanum and supports the tympanic membrane. -- Tympanic membrane. (Anat.) See the Note under Ear.

ke polyps situated at the summit of a long, slender stem which stands upright in the mud, supported by a bulbous base.

Not supported or encouraged; not countenanced; unaided. Daniel.

To support; to endure. [Obs.] Shak.

One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall.

To support as a crest; to bear. [Obs. & R.] Shak.

To sustain; to support; to guard. Nash.

To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2.

To be at the basis of; to form the foundation of; to support; as, a doctrine underlying a theory.

Fig.: To remove the foundation or support of by clandestine means; to ruin in an underhand way; as, to undermine reputation; to undermine the constitution of the state. He should be warned who are like to undermine him. Locke.

To support by some solid foundation; to place something underneath for support.

The act of one who underpins; the act of supporting by stones, masonry, or the like.

To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.