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o denominate; to style; to call. She named the child Ichabod. 1 Sam. iv. 21. Thus was the building left Ridiculous, and the work Confusion named. Milton.

laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc. [Eng.]

on for the use of the navy. It often contains all the mechanical and other appliences for building and equipping war vessels and training their crews.

A building for the shelter of neat cattle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Massinger.

hich goes through the wall or a pier, and upon which the weight of the wall rests, when a building is shored up to allow of alterations in the lower part. -- Needle furze (Bot.), a prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin (Genista Anglica). -- Needle gun, a firearm loaded at the breech with a cartri…

alian Renaissance, about 1420, has been designed with deliberate imitation of Greco-Roman buildings.

A panorama of the interior of a building, seen from within.

To build and occupy a nest. The king of birds nested within his leaves. Howell.

The act or process of building a nest.

Hammer-dressed; -- said of building stone.

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.

ting of oaks or of the wood of oaks. "In oaken bower." Milton. Oaken timber, wherewith to build ships. Bacon.

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.

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.