Pillar: alternatives and connections

One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly.

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To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect.

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The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

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A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate ass…

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Beginning; commencement.

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One who takes the leading part in a drama; hence, one who takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like.

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That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a r…

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To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life.

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In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree.

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Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.

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One who sustains a great burden.

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Of or pertaining to a caryatid.

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An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens.

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One who causes bad luck.

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A novelty; a new thing.

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An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian…

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An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, havin…

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A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.

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of Pile

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A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask.

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A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and somet…

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The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service.

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The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service.

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A covering for the head

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Of or pertaining to the head.

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A capital [Obs.] See Chapital.

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A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.

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The stirrup of a woman's saddle.

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The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the di…

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In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, i…

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A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.

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The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.

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A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

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A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and…

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The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop.

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A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.

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