Buttress: alternatives and connections

a masonry support that touches and directly receives thrust or pressure of an arch or bridge

That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thin…

Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull.

A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projec…

Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge.

Made with an arch or curve; covered with an arch; as, an arched door.

Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.

A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony i…

A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One…

Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.

(architecture) an arch constructed of masonry courses that are corbelled until they meet

The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.

To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.

The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.

A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate d…

Pertaining to both the hyoidean arch and the tongue; -- applied to the anterior segment of the hyoidean arch in many fishes. -- n. The…

A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.