2. To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.
Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks.
Shak.
3. To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; —
frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution.
I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up.
Acts xx. 32.
Syn. — To erect; construct; raise; found; frame.
Build
(Build) v. i.
1. To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.
2. To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something
deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.
Build
(Build), n. Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.
Builder
(Build"er) n. One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or
a mason.
In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and
the artisans who execute it.
Eng. Cyc.
Building
(Build"ing), n.
1. The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.
Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster.
Bp. Hall.
2. The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.
The execution of works of architecture necessarily includes building; but building is frequently employed
when the result is not architectural.
Hosking.
3. That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.
Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attire
Have cost a mass of public treasury.
Shak.
Built
(Built) n. Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. [Obs.] Dryden.
Built
(Built), a. Formed; shaped; constructed; made; — often used in composition and preceded by the
word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc.
Like the generality of Genoese countrywomen, strongly built.
Landor.
Buke muslin
(Buke" mus"lin) See Book muslin.
Bukshish
(||Buk"shish) n. See Backsheesh.
Bulau
(||Bu"lau) n. [Native name.] (Zoöl.) An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii),
somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.
Bulb
(Bulb) n. [L. bulbus, Gr. bolbo`s: cf. F. bulbe.]
