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Stored :: Store (v. t.) To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods..

Adjacency :: Adjacency () The state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings..

Face :: Face (v. t.) To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; as, a building faced with marble..

Annex :: Annex (n.) Something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing..

Ironwork :: Ironwork (n.) Anything made of iron; -- a general name of such parts or pieces of a building, vessel, carriage, etc., as consist of iron..

Pipe :: Pipe (v. t.) To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building..

Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level..

Grapery :: Grapery (n.) A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes.

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building..

Scaffold :: Scaffold (n.) A temporary structure of timber, boards, etc., for various purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in building, for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the spectators at a show, etc..

Rear :: Rear (v. t.) To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another..

Jut :: "Jut (v. i.) To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building..

Tabling :: Tabling (n.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding..

Pendentive :: Pendentive (n.) The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.

Underbuilding :: Underbuilding (n.) Same as Substruction.

Stock :: Stock (n.) Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings..

Magazine :: Magazine (n.) The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.

Armature :: Armature (n.) Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc..

Railway :: Railway (n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, a certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver..

Raising :: Raising (n.) Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising..

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