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A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger.

An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. [Slang, U.S.]

sheet or boiler iron, usually conical or pear-shaped. -- Life buoy, a float intended to support persons who have fallen into the water, until a boat can be dispatched to save them. -- Nut or Nun buoy, a buoy large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end. -- To stream the buoy, to let the anchor bu…

An advocate for , or supporter of, bureaucracy.

; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question. The court could not burke an inquiry, supported by such a mass of a affidavits. C. Reade.

A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.

various associations of university students formed (the original one at Jena in 1815) to support liberal ideas, or the organization formed by the affiliation of the local bodies. The organization was suppressed by the government in 1819, but was secretly revived, and is now openly maintained as a social organization,…

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

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…

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

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

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.

Also, a roofike covering, supported on pilars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc.

A piece of wood laid upon athe deck of a vessel to support the bulkneads. Cant frames, Cant timbers (Naut.), timber at the two ends of a ship, rising obliquely from the keel.

A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like.

That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production. M'Culloch.

This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing (the unexposed portions being dissolved away). If the process stops here it is called single transfer; if the image is afterward transferred in order to give an unreversed print, the method is call…