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A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc.

Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated. [Obs.] Johnson.

To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.

A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.

h iron, through which the cable is passed into the lockers or tiers. -- Chain plate (Shipbuilding), one of the iron plates or bands, on a vessel's side, to which the standing rigging is fastened. -- Chain pulley, a pulley with depressions in the periphery of its wheel, or projections from it, made to fit the links of…

A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions. [Colloq. for Exchange.]

a small building attached to a church;

A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft. Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. Milton.

m the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.

Of or pertaining to a choragus. Choragic monument, a building or column built by a victorious choragus for the reception and exhibition of the tripod which he received as a prize. Those of Lysicrates and Thrasyllus are still to be seen at Athens.

A building set apart for Christian worship.

al proceeding. -- Civil architecture, the architecture which is employed in constructing buildings for the purposes of civil life, in distinction from military and naval architecture, as private houses, palaces, churches, etc. -- Civil death. (Law.) See under Death. -- Civil engineering. See under Engineering. -- C…

An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building. Dryden. Swift.

A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons.

r is pumped to expose the bottom (of a river, etc.) and permit the laying of foundations, building of piers, etc.

A building, or number of buildings, used by a college. "The gate of Trinity College." Macaulay.

The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.

ich will cut in a curve; -- called also fret saw and keyhole saw. -- Compass timber (Shipbuilding), curved or crooked timber. -- Compass window (Arch.), a circular bay window or oriel window. It has two or more magnetic needles permanently attached to a card, which moves freely upon a pivot, and is read with referenc…

In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.