"Buttress" is a word in ENGLISH
A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the
thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.
Anything which supports or strengthens.
To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
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A squad car driver was covering a quiet beat out in the sticks when he was amazed to find a former lieutenant on the police force covering the beat.He stopped the car and asked, "Why, Irish Mike, this wouldn't be your new beat out here in the sticks, would it?""That it is, "Irish Mike replied grimly, "ever since I arrested the judge on his way to the masquerade ball.""You mean you pinched his honor?" asked Pat."How was I to know that his convict suit was only a costume?" demanded Mike."Well," mused Pat, "there's a lesson in this somewhere.""That there is," replied Irish Mike...." 'Tis wise never to book a judge by his cover."
To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land …
Read the complete definitionHaving straight projecting spines.
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Read the complete definitionTo cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body)
Read the complete definitionThe act of amputating; esp. the operation of cutting off a limb or projecting part of the body.
Read the complete definitionAn orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, …
Read the complete definitionAn instrument of wood or brass, on which this projection of the sphere is made, having a movable horizon or …
Read the complete definitionA distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from …
Read the complete definitionA projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
Read the complete definitionA name given to either of the projecting ends of Saturn's ring.
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Read the complete definitionThe two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds; the frontal points.
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Read the complete definitionA projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, …
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Read the complete definitionA stereographic projection of the sphere on the plane of a great circle, as the equator, or a meridian; a …
Read the complete definitionHaving ears or appendages like ears; eared. Esp.: (a) (Bot.) Having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the …
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