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The art or science of constructing or using the electric telegraph; the transmission of messages by means of the electric telegraph.

To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road. J. Hamilton.

commanded by a brigadier general, whose title is Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction of fortifications for land and seacoast defense, the improvement of rivers and harbors, the construction of lighthouses, etc., and, in time of war, supervises the engineering operations of the armies in the field.…

To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.

The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage.

ip mathematically from a model or drawing to the full or building size, in the process of construction. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

pay a debt. Counter extension. (Surg.) See under Counter. -- Extension table, a table so constructed as to be readily extended or contracted in length.

To construct. [Obs.] Byrom.

A building up; construction. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Constructive. [Obs.] Fulke.

The act of constructing; construction. [R.] Tithe was received by the bishop, . . . for the fabricof the churches for the poor. Milman.

To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.

The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. Burke.

One who fabricates; one who constructs or makes. The fabricator of the works of Ossian. Mason.

To make; to construct; to do.

unded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar. Whose false foundation waves have swept away. Spenser.

Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress. Gather up all fancifullest shells. Keats.

hot; parched; feverish. Pope. The sword which is made fiery. Hooker. Fiery cross, a cross constructed of two firebrands, and pitched upon the point of a spear; formerly in Scotland borne by a runner as a signal for the clan to take up arms. Sir W. Scott.

Material for the construction of a floor or floors.

Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps. Sir T. Browne.