Withers: alternatives and connections

A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as…

Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.

Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and…

The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it…

The neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. See Illust. of Bird.

The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man…

A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.

A short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains; the pass over such a ridge.

A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel.

That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column.

A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the sh…

The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.

A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or device, as…

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between tw…

The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.