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Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain..

Prop :: Prop (v. t.) To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state..

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) Hence, to keep from sinking, as in despondence, or the like; to support..

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit..

Suffer :: Suffer (v. t.) To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.

Lever :: Lever (n.) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; -- used for transmitting and modifying force and motion. Specif., a bar of metal, wood, or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mecha

Damage :: Damage (n.) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another..

Support :: Support (n.) That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind..

Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope..

Bear :: Bear (v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up.

Fight :: Fight (v. t.) To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause..

Aerostatics :: Aerostatics (n.) The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aeronautics..

Pabulum :: Pabulum (n.) The means of nutriment to animals or plants; food; nourishment; hence, that which feeds or sustains, as fuel for a fire; that upon which the mind or soul is nourished; as, intellectual pabulum..

Dependent :: Dependent (n.) One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for support of favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents..

Sustentate :: Sustentacular (a.) Supporting; sustaining; as, a sustentacular tissue..

Spurner :: Spurn (n.) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass.

Bunk :: Bunk (n.) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.

Atlas :: Atlas (n.) The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name..

Support :: Support (n.) The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining..

Suffer :: Suffer (v. t.) To undergo; to be affected by; to sustain; to experience; as, most substances suffer a change when long exposed to air and moisture; to suffer loss or damage..

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