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Saltern :: Saltern (n.) A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.

Art :: Art (n.) A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special work; -- often contradistinguished from science or speculative principles; as, the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation..

Sabicu :: Sabicu (n.) The very hard wood of a leguminous West Indian tree (Lysiloma Sabicu), valued for shipbuilding..

Bossage :: Bossage (n.) A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape..

Observatory :: Observatory (n.) A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies.

Plumb :: Plumb (v. t.) To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall..

Premise :: Premise (n.) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises..

Overturn :: Overturn (v. t.) To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building..

Change :: Change (v. t.) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions.

Prostyle :: Prostyle (n.) A prostyle portico or building.

Auditorium :: Auditorium (n.) The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience..

L :: L (n.) An extension at right angles to the length of a main building, giving to the ground plan a form resembling the letter L; sometimes less properly applied to a narrower, or lower, extension in the direction of the length of the main building; a wing..

Stereo-chemic :: Stereobate (n.) The lower part or basement of a building or pedestal; -- used loosely for several different forms of basement.

Piece :: Piece (n.) A castle; a fortified building.

Proportion :: Proportion (n.) The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body..

Exedra :: Exedra (n.) A room in a public building, furnished with seats..

Corb :: Corb (n.) An ornament in a building; a corbel.

Grange :: Grange (n.) A farmhouse, with the barns and other buildings for farming purposes..

Embattlement :: Embattlement (n.) The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints..

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