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Superstruction :: Superstruct (v. t.) To build over or upon another structure; to erect upon a foundation.

Brisk :: Brisk (v. t. & i.) To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up..

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

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..

Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees..

Parados :: Parados (n.) An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse..

Endwise :: Endwise (adv.) On end; erectly; in an upright position.

Rise :: Rise (v.) To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall..

Erect :: Erect (v. t.) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.

Defilading :: Defilading (n.) The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected..

Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To bear, carry, or manage; as he holds himself erect; he holds his head high..

Arrected :: Arrected (a.) Lifted up; raised; erect.

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

Thallus :: Thallus (n.) A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens..

Orthotropic :: Orthotropic (a.) Having the longer axis vertical; -- said of erect stems.

Profiling :: Profiling (n.) In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points..

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

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..

Erect :: Erect (v. t.) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like..

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