table, flat as a bowling green; alluvial; calm, calm as a mill pond; smooth, smooth as glass.
recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent[obs3]; lying &c. v.;
prone, supine, couchant, jacent[obs3], prostrate, recubant[obs3].
Adv. horizontally &c. adj.; on one’s back, on all fours, on its beam
ends.
#214. Pendency.
— N. pendency[obs3], dependency; suspension,
hanging
&c. v.; pedicel, pedicle, peduncle; tail, train, flap,
skirt, pigtail, pony tail, pendulum; hangnail
peg, knob, button, hook,
nail, stud, ring, staple, tenterhook;
fastening &c. 45; spar, horse.
V. be pendent &c. adj.;
hang, depend, swing, dangle; swag;
daggle[obs3], flap, trail, flow; beetle.
suspend, hang, sling,
hook up, hitch, fasten to, append.
Adj. pendent, pendulous;
pensile; hanging &c. v.; beetling, jutting
over, overhanging, projecting; dependent; suspended
&c. v.; loose, flowing.
having a peduncle &c.
n.; pedunculate[obs3], tailed, caudate.
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#215. Support.
— N. support, ground, foundation, base,
basis; terra
firma; bearing, fulcrum, bait [U.S.], caudex crib[obs3];
point d’appui[Fr], gr/pou sto/gr[Grk][Grk],
purchase footing, hold, locus standi[Lat]; landing
place, landing stage; stage, platform; block; rest,
resting place; groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation,
subvention; floor &c. (basement) 211.
supporter; aid &c. 707;
prop, stand, anvil, fulciment|; cue rest,
jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage;
sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint,
lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit[obs3], outrigger; ratlings[obs3].
staff, stick, crutch,
alpenstock, baton, staddle[obs3]; bourdon[obs3],
cowlstaff[obs3], lathi[obs3], mahlstick[obs3].
post, pillar, shaft,
thill[obs3], column, pilaster; pediment, pedicle;
pedestal; plinth, shank, leg, socle[obs3], zocle[obs3];
buttress, jamb, mullion, abutment; baluster, banister,
stanchion; balustrade; headstone; upright; door post,
jamb, door jamb.
frame, framework; scaffold,
skeleton, beam, rafter, girder, lintel,
joist, travis[obs3], trave[obs3], corner stone, summer,
transom; rung, round, step, sill; angle rafter, hip
rafter; cantilever, modillion[obs3]; crown post, king
post; vertebra.
columella[obs3], backbone;
keystone; axle, axletree; axis; arch,
mainstay.
trunnion, pivot, rowlock[obs3];
peg &c. (pendency) 214[obs3]; tiebeam
&c. (fastening) 45; thole pin[obs3].
board, ledge, shelf,
hob, bracket, trevet[obs3], trivet, arbor, rack;
mantel, mantle piece[Fr], mantleshelf[obs3]; slab,
console; counter, dresser; flange, corbel; table,
trestle; shoulder; perch; horse; easel, desk; clotheshorse,
hatrack; retable; teapoy[obs3].
seat, throne, dais;
divan, musnud[obs3]; chair, bench, form, stool,


