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The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.

A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.

A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.

how, an exhibition of dogs. -- Bench table (Arch.), a projecting course at the base of a building, or round a pillar, sufficient to form a seat.

In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the eucharist is made. Audsley.

A building. [Obs.]

, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.

A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops.

Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.

troy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.

st or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.

A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States.

thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.

ti), which sometimes infests the human body and clothes. See Grayback. -- Body plan (Shipbuilding), an end elevation, showing the conbour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her length. -- Body politic, the collective body of a nation or state as politically organized, or as exercising political functions; al…

To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.

A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape. Gwilt.

A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U.S.Hist.] The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into "villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the ha…

To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.

inous case inclosing the brain. -- Brain coral, Brain stone coral (Zoöl), a massive reef-building coral having the surface covered by ridges separated by furrows so as to resemble somewhat the surface of the brain, esp. such corals of the genera Mæandrina and Diploria. -- Brain fag (Med.), brain weariness. See Cerebr…

Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.