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

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

Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels.

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.

The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.

A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer.

-- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet African-American, a United States citizen of African descent.

r which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building.

A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

The jurisdiction or office of an alcalde; also, the building or chamber in which he conducts the business of his office.

A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower. Cowper.

A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.

An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.

A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.

hercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.

Something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing.