Chapter Supplely to Supposition of S by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

3. That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reënforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery.

Points of support (Arch.), the horizontal area of the solids of a building, walls, piers, and the like, as compared with the open or vacant spaces. — Right of support (Law), an easement or servitude by which the owner of a house has a right to rest his timber on the walls of his neighbor's house. Kent.

Syn. — Stay; prop; maintenance; subsistence; assistance; favor; countenance; encouragement; patronage; aid; help; succor; nutriment; sustenance; food.

Supportable
(Sup*port"a*ble) a. [Cf. F. supportable.] Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. — Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. — Sup*port"a*bly, adv.

Supportance
(Sup*port"ance) n. Support. [Obs.] Shak.

Supportation
(Sup`por*ta"tion) n. Maintenance; support. [Obs.] Chaucer. Bacon.

Supporter
(Sup*port"er) n.

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

The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured.

Bacon.

The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries.

South.

2. Especially, an adherent; one who sustains, advocates, and defends; as, the supporter of a party, faction, or candidate.

3. (Shipbuilding) A knee placed under the cathead.

4. (Her.) A figure, sometimes of a man, but commonly of some animal, placed on either side of an escutcheon, and exterior to it. Usually, both supporters of an escutcheon are similar figures.

5. (Med.) A broad band or truss for supporting the abdomen or some other part or organ.

Supportful
(Sup*port"ful) a. Abounding with support. [Obs.] Chapman.

Supportless
(Sup*port"less), a. Having no support. Milton.

Supportment
(Sup*port"ment) n. Support. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Supportress
(Sup*port"ress) n. A female supporter. [R.]

You are my gracious patroness and supportress.

Massinger.

Supposable
(Sup*pos"a*ble) a. Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case. — Sup*pos"a*ble*ness, n. — Sup*pos"a*bly, adv.

Supposal
(Sup*pos"al) n. The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion. Shak.

Interest, with a Jew, never proceeds but upon supposal, at least, of a firm and sufficient bottom.

South.

Suppose
(Sup*pose") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Supposed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Supposing.] [F. supposer; pref. sub- under + poser to place; — corresponding in meaning to L. supponere, suppositum, to put under, to substitute, falsify, counterfeit. See Pose.]