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

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..

Buoyant :: Buoyant (v. t. & i.) Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier..

Float :: Float (v. t.) To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation..

Depend :: Depend (v. i.) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.

Apyrous :: Apyrous (a.) Incombustible; capable of sustaining a strong heat without alteration of form or properties.

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

Sufferer :: Sufferer (n.) One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are sufferers by fire or by losses at sea..

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

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..

Brace :: Brace (n.) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.

Sostenuto :: Sostenuto (a.) Sustained; -- applied to a movement or passage the sounds of which are to sustained to the utmost of the nominal value of the time; also, to a passage the tones of which are to be somewhat prolonged or protacted..

Continuant :: Continuant (a.) Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound..

Bearer :: Bearer (n.) One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries..

Upbear :: Upbear (v. t.) To bear up; to raise aloft; to support in an elevated situation; to sustain.

Float :: Float (v. i.) Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something..

Sufferable :: Suffer (v. i.) To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.

Desert :: Desert (n.) A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place..

Ode :: Ode (n.) A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style..

Duplicity :: Duplicity (n.) Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith..

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