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Abutment
noun · 78% connection
The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slender, pier, forms, division, lights.
Aisle
noun · 78% connection
A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slender, pier, forms, division, lights.
Alcohol
noun · 78% connection
A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slender, pier, forms, division, lights.
Anta
noun · 78% connection
A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slender, pier, forms, division, lights.
Base
noun · 78% connection
The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slender, pier, forms, division, lights.
Blinder
noun · 78% connection
One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slender, pier, forms, division, lights.
Bracket
noun · 78% connection
An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slender, pier, forms, division, lights.
Butment
noun · 78% connection
A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slender, pier, forms, division, lights.
Came
noun · 78% connection
A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or piece…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slender, pier, forms, division, lights.
Cantoned
adjective · 78% connection
Having the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slender, pier, forms, division, lights.
Coussinet
noun · 78% connection
A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slender, pier, forms, division, lights.
Crib
noun · 78% connection
A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slender, pier, forms, division, lights.
Cutwater
noun · 78% connection
A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slender, pier, forms, division, lights.
Dichotomy
noun · 78% connection
Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slender, pier, forms, division, lights.
Diorama
noun · 78% connection
A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slender, pier, forms, division, lights.
Dummy
noun · 78% connection
A floating barge connected with a pier.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slender, pier, forms, division, lights.
End
noun · 78% connection
either extremity of something that has length; "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slender, pier, forms, division, lights.
Fast
noun · 78% connection
That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slender, pier, forms, division, lights.
