English English Dictionary

of Build

The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.

The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.

That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.

of Build

Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship.

Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc.

See Book muslin.

See Backsheesh.

An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.

A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid.

A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta.

An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, curved, etc.

To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

Bulbous.

Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis.

Having a bulb; round-headed.

A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.

Producing bulbs.

A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aerial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.