ped estal, pedes tall

[Sp. pedestal, from Ital. piedestallo, from piede (Lat. pedem, acc us. of pes ) a foot, and stallo a stable, a stall, from Ger. stall; O. Fr. piedstal.] 1. Arch .: An insulated basement or support for a columu, a statue, or a vase; the lower member of a pillar, named by the Greeks stylobates and stereobates. In cla ical architecture it consists of three divisions: The base, or foot, next the ground, the dado, forming the main body, and the cornice, or sur-base molding, at the top. "Build him a pedestal , and say, 'Stand there, And be our admiration and our praise." Cowper: Task , v. 258. 2. Mach .: The standards of a pillow-block, holding the bra es in which the shaft turns. 3. Railway : A casting secured to the truck frame an i having vertical guides for the journal boxes of the axles, which rise and fall in the pedetals as the springs collapse and expand. pedestal-cover, s. pedestal *pěd'-es-tal, v . t . [PEDESTAL, 8.1 To place or seton a pedestal; to support as a pedestal.