Definition of erect

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Erect (a.) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.

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Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators..
Superstructor :: Superstructive (a.) Built or erected on something else.
Right :: Right (a.) Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone..
Construction :: Construction (n.) The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.
Fall :: Fall (n.) The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall..
Saiga :: Saiga (n.) An antelope (Saiga Tartarica) native of the plains of Siberia and Eastern Russia. The male has erect annulated horns, and tufts of long hair beneath the eyes and ears..
Rondel :: Rondel (n.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
Cirque :: Cirque (n.) A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects.
Erect :: Erect (a.) Watchful; alert.
Tulip-eared :: Tulip-eared (a.) Having erect, pointed ears; prick-eared; -- said of certain dogs..
Erect :: Erect (a.) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc..
Proposal :: Proposal (n.) That which is proposed, or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals for a treaty of peace; to offer proposals for erecting a building; to make proposals of marriage..
Close-fights :: Close-fights (n. pl.) Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters..
Encampment :: Encampment (n.) The place where an army or a company is encamped; a camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.
Roman :: Roman (a.) Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters..
Build :: Build (v. t.) To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise..
Sea Elephant :: Sea elephant () A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct..
Bridge :: Bridge (n.) A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other..
Paragrele :: Paragrele (n.) A lightning conductor erected, as in a vineyard, for drawing off the electricity in the atmosphere in order to prevent hailstorms..
Beacon :: Beacon (n.) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners..
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