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and chimpanzee, and by some considered only a variety of the chimpanzee. It is noted for building large, umbrella-shaped nests in trees. Called also tscheigo, tschiego, nschego, nscheigo.

A building used as a school of gymnastics.

s, are established by law, in order to collect from the users tolls to defray the cost of building, repairing, etc.

A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.

The filling below or beneath; the under part of a building. Sir H. Wotton.

To lay stones, masonry, etc., under, as the sills of a building, on which it is to rest.

That by which a building is underpinned; the material and construction used for support, introduced beneath a wall already constructed.

Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame.

etween bodies or things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or thoughts.

A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome, near the church of St. Peter, including the pope's palace, a museum, a library, a famous chapel, etc.

The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.

that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel. [He] began to build a vessel of huge bulk. Milton.

gination overpowers his reason and controls his judgment; an unpractical schemer; one who builds castles in the air; a daydreamer.

A principal door of a large ancient building, as of an amphitheater. Sixty-four vomitories . . . poured forth the immense multitude. Gibbon.

outhern Australia, where it is very tame, and frequents stock yards and gardens and often builds its nest about houses; -- called also black fantail. -- Water wagtail. (a) Any one of several species of wagtails of the restricted genus Motacilla. They live chiefly on the shores of ponds and streams. (b) The American wa…

e, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room. The plaster of the wall of the King's palace. Dan. v. 5.

The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls. [Prov. Eng.]

One who builds walls.

Work; a building. [Obs. or Scot.] Spenser.

An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.