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Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.

A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights. Henry the Eight had built . . . a cockpit. Macaulay.

the compass did more for the supplying and increase of useful commodities than those who built workhouses. Locke.

h in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God. Macaulay.

cted his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. Milton.

Following as a result, inference, or natural effect. The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal. Locke.

f eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a gevser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.

A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint. [East Indies]

the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.

d; cheerless. [Poetic] He brought him through a darksome narrow pass To a broad gate, all built of beaten gold. Spenser.

A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.

of the sides. Diagonal bond (Masonry), herringbone work. See Herringbone, a. -- Diagonal built (Shipbuilding), built by forming the outer skin of two layers of planking, making angles of about 45º with the keel, in opposite directions. -- Diagonal cleavage. See under Cleavage. -- Diagonal molding (Arch.), a chevron…

Expense; profusion; outlay. [Obs.] It was a vault built for great dispense. Spenser.

ving its main armament entirely of big guns all of one caliber. Since the Dreadnought was built, the caliber of the heaviest guns has increased from 12 in. to 13½ in., 14 in., and 15 in., and the displacement of the largest batteships from 18,000 tons to 30,000 tons and upwards. The term superdreadnought is popularly a…

center of a country. That wonderful emporium [Manchester] . . . was then a mean and ill- built market town. Macaulay. It is pride . . . which fills our streets, our emporiums, our theathers. Knox.

To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.

The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes. Her peerless height my mind to high erection draws up. Sidney

Eternal. [Poetic] Shak. Built up to eterne significance. Mrs. Browning.

To frame; to built; to construct. [Obs.] "Fabric their mansions." J. Philips.

Without fellow or equal; peerless. Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless. Chapman.