资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Support \Sup*port"\, n. [F.]
   1. The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or
      sustaining.

   2. That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a
      prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind.

   3. That which maintains or preserves from being overcome,
      falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like;
      subsistence; maintenance; assistance; re["e]nforcement;
      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.