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Subsulphate :: Substyle (n.) A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a dial is erected; being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane perpendicular to it passing through the style..

Velvet :: Velvet (n.) A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back..

Air-built :: Air-built (a.) Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle..

Ruff :: Ruff (n.) A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve..

Erection :: Erection (n.) 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 of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage..

Rouse :: Rouse (v.) To raise; to make erect.

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

Fore-topmast :: Fore-topmast (n.) The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship..

Close-fights :: Close-fights (n. pl.) Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters..

Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators..

Erect :: Erect (v. t.) To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc..

Proneness :: Proneness (n.) The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man..

Erecter :: Erecter (n.) An erector; one who raises or builds.

Erect :: Erect (a.) Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect..

Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles..

Erection :: Erection (n.) Anything erected; a building of any kind.

Monument :: Monument (n.) A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions..

Erect :: Erect (v. t.) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.

Erection :: Erection (n.) State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.

Martello Tower :: Martello tower () A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction..

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