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A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows. [Written also brestsummer and bressummer.]

A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.

A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.

The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks.

The act of building with or laying bricks.

A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.

A beam that goes across a building.

To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.

A projecting part of a building. [Obs.] Here, stand behind this bulk. Shak.

A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.

The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray. [Written also kaaba.]

Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself. Cabinet council.

A cream-colored limestone for building, found near Caen, France.

A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level.

Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc. Haliwell.

The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.

The edifice at Washington occupied by the Congress of the United States; also, the building in which the legislature of State holds its sessions; a statehouse.

kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court. [Written also caravanserai and caravansera.]

The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings.

e porch (Arch.), a canopy or roofed pavilion covering the driveway at the entrance to any building. It is intended as a shelter for those who alight from vehicles at the door; -- sometimes erroneously called in the United States porte-cochère.