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dertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.

Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.

platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.

An adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism. Shipley.

d, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber. Farrow. Galloper gun, a light gun, supported on a galloper, -- formerly attached to British infantry regiments.

, and, under the name of Terra Japonica, is used for chewing with the Areca nut, and is exported for tanning and dyeing.

o make defense against any assailing danger; to take the place of a fallen defender or supporter. -- To stop a gap, to secure a weak point; to repair a defect.

A supported of Genevanism.

- Gimbal ring, a single gimbal, as that by which the cockeye of the upper millstone is supported on the spindle.

acetic or carbolic acid. -- Glacial drift (Geol.), earth and rocks which have been transported by moving ice, land ice, or icebergs; bowlder drift. -- Glacial epoch or period (Geol.), a period during which the climate of the modern temperate regions was polar, and ice covered large portions of the northern hemispher…

One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments. [Colloq. U. S.]

A man recently married, or about to be married; a bridegroom. Dryden. Groom porter, formerly an officer in the English royal household, who attended to the furnishing of the king's lodgings and had certain privileges.

One of a faction in Germany and Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which supported the House of Guelph and the pope, and opposed the Ghibellines, or faction of the German emperors.

A mixture of two malt liquors, esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts. Dickens.

In Turkey and other Oriental countries, a porter or burden bearer; specif., in Western India, a palanquin bearer.

y of cold water. This process gives an armor plate a thick surface of extreme hardness supported by material gradually decreasing in hardness to the unaltered soft steel at the back.

A bargelike vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers.

In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.

us. Book of Common Prayer. Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not be sported with without loss, or regained by courage. Buckminster.

To commit; to intrust. [Obs.] Yet charge of them was to a porter hight. Spenser.