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, a curtain connerting two half bastions. -- Front door, the door in the front wall of a building, usually the principal entrance. -- Front of fortification, the works constructed upon any one side of a polygon. Farrow. -- Front of operations, all that part of the field of operations in front of the successive posit…

Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings.

Loud or rapid talk without meaning. Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud Among the builders. Milton.

ke a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.

The vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like. Hence:

A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely. [Written also gargle, gargyle, and gurgoyle.]

A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

A building where cotton is ginned.

ralcohol. -- Marine glue, a solution of caoutchouc in naphtha, with shellac, used in shipbuilding.

A building or room devoted to works of sculpture.

fascine or fagot, steeped in wax, pitch, and glue, used in various ways, as for igniting buildings or works, or to light ditches and ramparts. Farrow.

A building for storing grain; a granary. [Obs.] Milton.

A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes.

The whole.; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by the great.

the wood of a lauraceous tree found in the West Indies and in South America, used for shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and Guiana is the Nectandra Rodioei, that of Martinique is the Colubrina ferruginosa. -- Green iron ore (Min.) dufrenite. -- Green laver (Bot.), an edible seaweed (Ulva latissima);…

To fashion into groins; to build with groins. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Emerson.

he tune on which descants are raised; the plain song. Moore (Encyc.). On that ground I'll build a holy descant. Shak.

A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.

A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics.

fically, a scholar at a boarding school who takes dinner only. -- Half-breadth plan (Shipbuilding), a horizontal plan of the half a vessel, divided lengthwise, showing the lines. -- Half cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the dominant. -- Half cap, a slight salute with the cap. [Obs.] Shak. -- A half cock, the position o…