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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…

To put together; to construct; to build. [Obs.] Before that Merlin died, he did intend A brazen wall in compass to compile. Spenser.

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

; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something; as, a concession to build a canal. This is therefore a concession , that he doth . . . believe the Scriptures to be sufficiently plain. Sharp. When a lover becomes satisfied by small compliances without further pursuits, then expect to find popular a…

To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice.

The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

ing contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass. Aristotle says we are not to build certain rules on the contingency of human actions. South.

lace or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay. Here to continue, and build up here A growing empire. Milton. They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. Matt. xv. 32.

who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.

ken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.

An ornament in a building; a corbel.

n itself. -- Corps de logis (ke l Etym: [F., body of the house], the principal mass of a building, considered apart from its wings. -- Corps diplomatique (k Etym: [F., diplomatic body], the body of ministers or envoys accredited to a government.

rnal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.

nuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building. Gwilt.

An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. Tennyson. Golds…