SUSPENSION BRIDGE

In Architecture, a bridge in which the roadway, instead of being carried over the supporting points, is suspended from them, the supporting pomts being chains or other flexible materials. The principle has recently been carried to a great extent in this country, as in the case of the Menai bridge; but its application is old, and has long been practised among people who have attained very little if any skill in the arts. See Bridge. [s. 1212]