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The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience.

A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way. Atterbury.

A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.

A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.

en parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

en parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

The building or office used for banking purposes.

In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near.

A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable. Gwilt.

A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables. Barn owl (Zoöl.), an owl of Europe and America (Aluco flammeus, or Strix flammea), which frequents barns and other buildings. -- Barn swallow (Zoöl.), the common A…

A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings. He lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches and thatched with straw. Gibbon.

small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively. Basement membrane (Anat.), a delicate membrane composed of a single layer of flat cells, forming the substratum upon which, in…

A building used by the Romans as a place of public meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached.

A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing. Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence. Gwilt.

a rule or frame, and a plumb line, by which the batter or slope of a wall is regulated in building.

A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.

One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship. The beams of a vessel are strong pieces of timber stretching across from side to side to support the decks. Totten.

European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.

That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.