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Rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building.

e of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a building.

A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies. The new observatory in Greenwich Park. Evelyn.

A suborder of corals including many reef-building species, having round, starlike calicles.

r supply goods; a direction, in writing, to pay money, to furnish supplies, to admit to a building, a place of entertainment, or the like; as, orders for blankets are large. In those days were pit orders -- beshrew the uncomfortable manager who abolished them. Lamb.

An orthographic projection, sometimes partly in section, esp. of a building.

To exceed in building, or in durability of building.

Being, or done, in the open air; being or done outside of certain buildings, as poorhouses, hospitals, etc.; as, outdoor exercise; outdoor relief; outdoor patients.

A small house or building at a little distance from the main house; an outbuilding.

ut for temporary use, as from a ship's mast, to hold a rope or a sail extended, or from a building, to support hoisting teckle.

ts, as corner boards, hanging stiles, etc., required to complete the exterior of a wooden building; -- rare in masonry.

The clearstory, or upper story, of a building.

Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town.

ifically: The projection of an upper part (as a roof, an upper story, or other part) of a building beyond the lower part; as, the overhang of a roof, of the eaves, etc.

upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building. Dryden.

throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.

A trick; collusion. [Obs.] Bale. Cherd packing (Bridge Building), the arrangement, side by side, of several parts, as bars, diagonals, a post, etc., on a pin at the bottom of a chord. Waddell. -- Packing box, a stuffing box. See under Stuffing. -- Packing press, a powerful press for baling cotton, wool, hay, etc. --…

See Paddle staff (b), below. [Prov. Eng.] Paddle beam (Shipbuilding), one of two large timbers supporting the spring beam and paddle box of a steam vessel. -- Paddle board. See Paddle, n., 3. -- Paddle box, the structure inclosing the upper part of the paddle wheel of a steam vessel. -- Paddle shaft, the revolving s…

A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower- like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship.

One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint.