Definition of built

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Built (a.) Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc..

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Air-built :: Air-built (a.) Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle..
Overbuilt :: Overbuilt (a.) Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town..
Erection :: Erection (n.) The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes..
Engine :: Engine (v. t.) To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another..
Fireplace :: Fireplace (n.) The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built..
Built :: Built (imp. & p. p.) of Buil.
Outbuilt :: Outbuilt (imp. & p. p.) of Outbuil.
Ice-built :: Ice-built (a.) Loaded with ice.
Castellated :: Castellated (a.) Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle..
Chase :: Chase (n.) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats..
Jerry-built :: "Jerry-built (a.) Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses..
Teocalli :: Teocalli (n.) Literally, God's house; a temple, usually of pyramidal form, such as were built by the aborigines of Mexico, Yucatan, etc..
Frame :: Frame (n.) A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc..
Campanile :: Campanile (n.) A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church..
Dagoba :: Dagoba (n.) A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint.
Flashing :: Flashing (n.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting..
Clipper :: Clipper (n.) A vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast sailing..
Crater :: Crater (n.) The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up..
Superstructure :: Superstructure (n.) Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basi.
Cloud-built :: Cloud-built (a.) Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary..
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