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Sprag :: Sprag (v. t.) To prop or sustain with a sprag.

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

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

Stand :: Stand (v. t.) To endure; to sustain; to bear; as, I can not stand the cold or the heat..

Support :: Support (v. t.) To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain; as, to support the character of King Lear..

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.

Bitts :: Bitts (n. pl.) A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc..

Outstand :: Outstand (v. t.) To resist effectually; to withstand; to sustain without yielding.

Lie :: Lie (adj.) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.

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

Sustained :: Sustainable (a.) Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable..

Strain :: Strain (n.) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career..

Revetment :: Revetment (v. t.) A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall..

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..

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment..

Sling :: Sling (v. t.) A contrivance for sustaining anything by suspensio.

Underfong :: Underfong (v. t.) To sustain; to support; to guard.

Underbearer :: Underbearer (n.) One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall..

Sustainment :: Sustainer (n.) One who, or that which, sustains..

Atlas :: Atlas (n.) One who sustains a great burden.

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