Definition of building

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Building (n.) The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture..

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Thorough-lighted :: Thorough-lighted (a.) Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building..
Wing :: Wing (n.) A side building, less than the main edifice; as, one of the wings of a palace..
Prostyle :: Prostyle (n.) A prostyle portico or building.
Library :: Library (n.) A building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books.
Bed :: Bed (n.) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds..
Baptistry :: Baptistry (n.) In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near..
Bath :: Bath (n.) A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing.
Coquina :: Coquina (n.) A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken 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..
Watchman :: Watchman (n.) Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night..
Pontifical :: Pontifical (a.) Of or pertaining to the building of bridges.
Porites :: Porites (n.) An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms..
Jail :: "Jail (n.) A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding..
Building :: Building (n.) The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing..
Bartizan :: Bartizan (n.) A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway..
Entry :: Entry (n.) That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine..
Treasure-house :: Treasure-house (n.) A house or building where treasures and stores are kept.
Estimate :: Estimate (n.) A valuing or rating by the mind, without actually measuring, weighing, or the like; rough or approximate calculation; as, an estimate of the cost of a building, or of the quantity of water in a pond..
Navvy :: Navvy (n.) Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc..
Murage :: Murage (n.) A tax or toll paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.
Bulk :: Bulk (v.) A projecting part of a building.
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