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

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.

One whose pccupation is to build with bricks. Bricklayer's itch. See under Itch.

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.

To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river. Their simple engineering bridged with felled trees the streams which could not be forded. Palfrey.

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

A beam that goes across a building.

Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. [Obs.] Dryden.

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.

To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.

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