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Construction :: Construction (n.) The form or manner of building or putting together the parts of anything; structure; arrangement.

Painter :: Painter (n.) One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint..

Construction :: Construction (n.) The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

Sag :: Sag (v. i.) To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.

Ledgment :: Ledgment (n.) A string-course or horizontal suit of moldings, such as the base moldings of a building..

Shipbuilding :: Shipbuilding (n.) Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels.

Jetty :: "Jetty (n.) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below..

Plan :: Plan (a.) A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram..

Ramline :: Ramline (n.) A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, or from stem to stern in building a vessel..

Parietal :: Parietal (a.) Resident within the walls or buildings of a college.

Tschego :: Tschego (n.) A West African anthropoid ape allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee, and by some considered only a variety of the chimpanzee. It is noted for building large, umbrella-shaped nests in trees. Called also tscheigo, tschiego, nschego, nscheigo..

Passage :: Passage (v. i.) Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor..

Sissoo :: Sissoo (n.) A leguminous tree (Dalbergia Sissoo) of the northern parts of India; also, the dark brown compact and durable timber obtained from it. It is used in shipbuilding and for gun carriages, railway ties, etc..

Dyehouse :: Dyehouse (n.) A building in which dyeing is carried on.

Porites :: Porites (n.) An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms..

Sciagraph :: Sciagraph (n.) An old term for a vertical section of a building; -- called also sciagraphy. See Vertical section, under Section..

Flank :: Flank (n.) The side of any building.

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..

Dilapidate :: Dilapidate (v. t.) To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building..

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