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A supporter.

To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.

A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.

Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.

Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth. "The bosom of the ocean." Addison.

One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer. [Colloq.] Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottleholder of oppressed states. The London Times.

The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface. Barrels with the bottom knocked out. Macaulay. No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low…

That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.

The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.

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.

A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers. Gray.

pertaining to branchiæ or gills. Branchial arches, the bony or cartilaginous arches which support the gills on each side of the throat of fishes and amphibians. See Illustration in Appendix. -- Branchial clefts, the openings between the branchial arches through which water passes.

A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or the like, and worn to support the breasts.

Planking to support a roof or wall.

Food; sustenance; support of life, in general. Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11

ecifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding.

A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows. [Written also brestsummer and bressummer.]

The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.

Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.

The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill. Knight.