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Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. [Obs.] Dryden.

Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle.

Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.

See Clinker-built.

Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.

Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. Cowper. So vanished my cloud-built palace. Goldsmith.

Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.

Of lofty structure; tall. "High-built organs." Tennyson. The high-built elephant his castle rears. Creech.

Loaded with ice. "Ice-built mountains." Gray.

Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses. [Colloq. Eng.]

Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town.

Built at, in, or by the sea.

Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes. All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies. De Quincey.

The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who.

A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.

, ranging from the run-about to the touring car, up to as high as 200 H. P. for specially built racing cars. Automobiles are also commonly, and generally in British usage, called motor cars.

l services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near.

A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.

An armor-plated man-of-war built of steel and heavily armed, generally having from ten thousand to fifteen thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to meet the heaviest ships in line of battle.

To deviate or incline from an angle of 90 Their houses are very ill built, the walls bevel. Swift.