Building: alternatives and connections

A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.

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The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- o…

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A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for…

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A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house.

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A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves.

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A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a brothel.

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A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution.

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A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.

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The business of a butcher.

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A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or plac…

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To be placed in a center; to be central.

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A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

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A house occupied by a club.

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The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.

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A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with…

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of Erect

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The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act…

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The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.

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A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.

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of Grade

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A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.

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A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.

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A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.

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A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a d…

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of Level

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A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.

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The act of ministering; ministration; service.

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A place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.

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A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have be…

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A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies.

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of Outbuild

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A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Fou…

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An orrery. See Orrery.

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A body of elders in the early Christian church.

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An eating house.

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The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.

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A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for…

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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

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The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offense, by compelling him to leave the…

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A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

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A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.

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Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels.

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A house where beasts are butchered for the market.

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A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer.

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A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a publi…

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A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

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Alt. of Theatre

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An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in…

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See Volery.

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That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or…

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The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

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The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

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The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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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.

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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.

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To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to.

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A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

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A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.

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The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.

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An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street a…

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A court or inclosure attached to a house.

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A strong broth of meat, strained and made clear for invalids; also, a savory jelly.

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One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything

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The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expa…

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The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.

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A lobby in a theater; a greenroom.

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To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…

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A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.

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A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire…

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of Heat

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A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface…

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The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby comm…

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The art or occupation of a mason.

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A narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies; a corner; a recess; a secluded retreat.

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of Paint

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The business of a plumber.

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of Plumb

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Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.

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The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon t…

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of Roof

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Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a ho…

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Not plentiful; small; scanty.

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The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.

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of Shingle

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The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

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A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc.

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A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase.

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See Story.

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A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered…

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A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc.

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Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.

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The porch or entrance into a house; a hall or antechamber next the entrance; a lobby; a porch; a hall.

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A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

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An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material,…

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One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the cas…

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The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

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A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehou…

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