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ge or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops.

Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.

Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.

ts explosion. -- Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; -- called also mortar vessel. -- Bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing. -- Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical…

A large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement. Full soon by bonfire and by bell, We learnt our liege was passing well. Gay.

A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation. Camden.

use of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.

girders. -- Pontoon bridge, Ponton bridge. See under Pontoon. -- Skew bridge, a bridge built obliquely from bank to bank, as sometimes required in railway engineering. -- Suspension bridge. See under Suspension. -- Trestle bridge, a bridge formed of a series of short, simple girders resting on trestles. -- Tubula…

o a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise. Nor aught availed him now To have built in heaven high towers. Milton.

That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc. Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attire Have cost a mass of public treasury. Shak.

A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church. Many of the campaniles od Italy are lofty and magnificent atructures. Swift.

A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century. A bay window may thus be called a carol. Parker.

Furnished with, protected by, or built like, a casemate. Campbell.

Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle.

A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.

A chapel or dependent church built for the ease or a accommodation of an increasing parish, or for parishioners who live at a distance from the principal church. (b) A privy. (Law) -- Chapel master, a director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra. -- To build a chapel (Naut.), to chapel a ship. S…

ged to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.

The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.

Of or pertaining to a choragus. Choragic monument, a building or column built by a victorious choragus for the reception and exhibition of the tripod which he received as a prize. Those of Lysicrates and Thrasyllus are still to be seen at Athens.

A vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast sailing. -- Clip"per-built` (, a.