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r the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.

A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar. Bar shoe (Far.), a kind of horseshoe having a bar across the usual opening at the heel, to protect a tender frog from injury. -- Bar shot, a double headed shot, consisting of a bar, with a ball or half ball at each end; -- formerly u…

Money paid for the support of a barbican. [Obs.]

which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; --opposed to Hunker. [Political Cant, U. S.]

tom to prevent rapid oscillations of the mercury, and suspended in gimbals from an arm or support on shipboard. -- Mountain barometer, a portable mercurial barometer with tripod support, and long scale, for measuring heights. -- Siphon barometer, a barometer having a tube bent like a hook with the longer leg closed a…

A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.

The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue. "The base of mighty mountains." Prescott.

Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based.

Without a base; having no foundation or support. "The baseless fabric of this vision." Shak.

The ground work the first or fundamental principle; that which supports. The basis of public credit is good faith. A. Hamilton.

and rivers. [Written also, but less properly, batteau.] Bateau bridge, a floating bridge supported by bateaux.

A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. Fuller.

That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.

A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.

The beams of a vessel are strong pieces of timber stretching across from side to side to support the decks. Totten.

To support or sustain; to hold up.

rom a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.

ore solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine.

A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.