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A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry. Note: When an external projection is used merely to stiffen a wall, it is a pier. 2. Anything which supports or strengthens. "The ground pillar

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A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry. Note: When an external projection is used merely to stiffen a wall, it is a pier. 2. Anything which supports or strengthens. "The ground pillar and buttress of the good old cause of nonconformity." South. Flying buttress. See Flying buttress. (more info) cf. OF. bouteret buttress. See

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  • STRUTTING
    from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv.
  • SUPPORTABLE
    Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • SUPPORTATION
    Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
  • SHORER
    One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.
  • SHOREWARD
    Toward the shore.
  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
  • SUPPORTFUL
    Abounding with support. Chapman.
  • EXHAUSTION
    An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
  • STRUT
    1. To swell; to bulge out. The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. Dryden. 2. To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity. Does he not hold up his head, . . . and strut in his gait Shak.
  • SUPPORTLESS
    Having no support. Milton.
  • OPPOSELESS
    Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
  • DISCOURAGEMENT
    1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
  • BETRAYAL
    The act or the result of betraying.
  • EXHAUSTIVE
    Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.
  • EXHAUSTURE
    Exhaustion. Wraxall.
  • DISFAVORABLY
    Unpropitiously.
  • OPPOSE
    1. To be set opposite. Shak. 2. To act adversely or in opposition; -- with against or to; as, a servant opposed against the act. Shak. 3. To make objection or opposition in controversy.
  • SURRENDEROR
    One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.
  • DISCOUNTENANCE
    1. To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash. How would one look from his majestic brow . . . Discountenance her despised! Milton. The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation. Sir
  • EXHAUST
    1. Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy. 2. Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work. Exhaust draught, a forced draught produced by drawing air through
  • SEASHORE
    All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks. (more info) 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
  • OVERTHWARTLY
    In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.
  • DISCONTINUE
    To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
  • LONGSHORE
    Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
  • INSUPPRESSIBLE
    That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
  • UNEXHAUSTIBLE
    Inexhaustible.
  • INEXHAUSTED
    Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden.
  • INSUPPORTABLE
    Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.

 

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