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or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means. Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks. Shak.

One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason. In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it. Eng. Cyc.

The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing. Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster. Bp. Hall.

Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas"tle*build`ing, n.

One whose business is to build houses; a housewright.

A professional builder who erects cheap dwellings of poor materials and unsubstantial and slovenly construction.

To exceed in building, or in durability of building.

A building separate from, and subordinate to, the main house; an outhouse.

To build over. Milton.

To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.

One who rebuilds. Bp. Bull.

A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.

Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels.

To demolish; to raze. "To unbuild the city." Shak.

A subordinate or assistant builder. An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor.

Same as Substruction.

ed form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a doing." Shak. "He burst out a laughing." Macaulay. The hyphen may be used to connect a with the verbal substantive (as, a-huntin…

her sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.

Anything added; increase; augmentation; as, a piazza is an addition to a building.

The state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings.