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The act of superstructing, or building upon.

One who builds a superstructure. [R.] R. North.

all that part of a building above the basement. Also used figuratively. You have added to your natural endowments the superstructure of study. Dryden.

e support of a battery. Points of support (Arch.), the horizontal area of the solids of a building, walls, piers, and the like, as compared with the open or vacant spaces. -- Right of support (Law), an easement or servitude by which the owner of a house has a right to rest his timber on the walls of his neighbor's hou…

A mark made on the molds of a ship, when building, to show where the angles of the timbers are to be placed. [Written also sirmark.]

condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of; as, to survey a building in order to determine its value and exposure to loss by fire.

in parts; having its parts in due proportion as to dimensions; as, a symmetrical body or building.

The building or place appropriated to the religious worship of the Jews.

ysis; thus, water is made by synthesis from hydrogen and oxygen; hence, specifically, the building up of complex compounds by special reactions, whereby their component radicals are so grouped that the resulting substances are identical in every respect with the natural articles when such occur; thus, artificial alcoho…

inerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine and architecture were systematized into arts. Harris.

space equal to two diameters or four modules between two columns; -- said of a portico or building. See Intercolumniation. -- n.

e ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.

The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.

ona grandis) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes; also, the timber of the tree. [Written also teek.] African teak, a tree (Oldfieldia Africana) of Sierra Leone; also, its very heavy and durable wood; -- called also African oak. -- New Zeland teak, a…

Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.

A student of law, so called from having apartments in the Temple at London, the original buildings having belonged to the Knights Templars. See Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, under Temple. [Eng.]

ii. 16. The groves were God's first temples. Bryant. Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, two buildings, or ranges of buildings, occupied by two inns of court in London, on the site of a monastic establishment of the Knights Templars, called the Temple.

A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.

A flat roof to a house; as, the buildings of the Oriental nations are covered with terraces.

A tetrastyle building.