▪ I.building,vbl.n.|ˈbɪldɪŋ|Forms, see build v.[f.asprec.+ -ing¹.]1. a.The action of the verb build, lit.and fig.Freq. with up (also attrib.).†b.Style of construction, build (e.g.of a ship).c1394P. Pl. Crede 501In beldinge of tombes þei trauaileþ.1480inBury Wills (1850) 65To be..applied..to the bildyng, sustentacion, and reparacion of the seid collage.1590WebbeTrav.(Arb.) 33The houses are of a very olde building.1604HieronWks.I. 515For the building vp of their soules in Christ Iesus.1737L. ClarkeHist.Bible viii. (1740) 551In a Castle of his own Building.1825HoneEvery-day Book I. 1527This carriage..had been three years in building.1852TupperProverb.Philos.37Trifles..are levers in the building up of character.1901DailyChron.5 Dec. 3/4The synthetic or building-up chemistry.1942W. S. ChurchillEnd of Beginning (1943) 36The steady building-up of very powerful forces and bases there.2.That which is built; a structure, edifice: now a structure of the nature of a house built where it is to stand.1297R.Glouc.271And þer nas of olde house in þe lond non, Þat he ne amendede mid som lond, oþer mid byldynge.c1340Cursor M. 1774Þe bildyngis fel boþe heȝe & lawe.c1430Syr Gener. 244This belding we made here Is for you.1553EdenTreat.NewInd.(Arb.) 14It..hath in it very fayre byldinges.1611BibleEccles.x. 18By much slouthfulnesse the building decayeth.1724WattsLogic 110A ship may be defined a large hollow building made to pass over the sea with sails.1795SoutheyJoan of Arc vii,Your holy buildings and your homes.1854RuskinLect.Archit.Add.121The essential thing in a building..is that it be strongly built, and fit for its uses.†3.A company (of rooks), a rookery. Obs.c1470Hors Shepe & G. (1822) 30A byldyn of rooks A clatering of chowhis.1481Bk.St.Albans f vi b,A beldyng of Rookes.[1801StruttSports & Past. i. ii. 33. 1883 Standard 26 Sept. 5/1Every one with any pretence to be gentle-folk spoke of..a building of rooks.]4.attrib.and Comb., as building-board, building-estate, building-ground, building-land, building-lot, building-material, building-place, building-site, building-stone, building-trade, building-tree; also building-block, (a)=blockn.12 b; also fig.and attrib.; (b) one of the temporary supports for a ship's keel while the ship is being built (Knight Dict.Mech.a 1877); building-lease, a lease of land on which the lessee may build; building line, a prescribed limit relative to the frontage beyond which a building must not extend; building motion, in Cotton-spinning, apparatus for winding and shaping uniformly the roving on the bobbins of a fly frame or the yarn of a cop on a mule; building paperorig.U.S., a heavy paper used by builders as a covering or lining material; building-rent(seequot.); building-slip, a slip(seeslipn.³ 1 b)on which vessels are built; building-society, a society in which the members periodically contribute to a fund out of which money may be lent to any of their number for the purpose of building (or purchasing) a house(seealsoquot.1965); building-term, the duration of a building-lease.1846Boston Herald 14 Oct. 3/1Jewsharps, Games, *Building Blocks, Harmonicas.1857Mich.Agric.Soc.Trans.IX. 316A dozen Patent Building Blocks.1915J. WebsterDear Enemy (1917) 152Punch was occupying a rug..engaged with building-blocks.1936J. KantorObjectivePsychol.Gram.iii. 39To such a building-block comparison of speech, psychological grammar is strongly opposed.1949Rev.Eng.Studies XXV. 369Four..pitch levels..are the ‘basic building blocks’ of the tunes.1962F. I. Ordwayet al. Basic Astronautics iv. 153Some hope to learn from gravitational research more about the micro⁓structure of the building blocks of nature, the subatomic particle.1969Times 5 Feb. 13/7The most successful symmetry scheme is the one in which the elusive particle, the quark, is the fundamental building block from which all the heavier particles are made.1917U.S.Pat. 1,227,767 29 May 1/2*Building board is put in place on the outside of a house..or secured on the inside.1959M. S. BriggsConc.Encycl.Archit.61Building board, a term covering a wide range of artificial products used internally in modern building.1884Sir J. C. MathewLaw Reports 14 Queen's B.Div.758The land is part of a *building estate.1858Ld.St.Leonards HandyBk.Prop.Law vii. 48Abutting upon *building-ground belonging to the seller.1905Westm.Gaz.12 May 7/1The L.C.C. purchased squares at *building-land price.1858Ld.St.Leonards HandyBk.Prop.Law xvii. 114Powers..to grant *building-leases.1885Ld.Watson 26 Feb. in LawRep.Appeal Cases X. 246,I need not deal with the case of the *building line being more than fifty feet from the highway.1891Laws of Missouri 47All cities in Missouri..may establish a building line to which all buildings and structures thereon shall conform.1925Town PlanningRev.June 185At corners shops should be kept back to the full building line to both streets.1971Reader's Digest Family Guide to Law 98[Planning consent is required]if the extension is beyond the original building line of the house.1701inConn.Col.Rec.IV. 357Pasture, *building lot, and long lott.1881W. O. StoddardE. Hardery 15The high prices of all building lots.1835C. F. HoffmanWinter in West I. 69A species of yellow freestone..which, for elegance as a *building material, is not surpassed by marble itself.1904Goodchild & TweneyTechnol.&Sci.Dict.73/1*Building motion.1873Newton Kansan 20 Feb. 3/4*Building paper, the best substitute for plastering.1955G. BowenWool Away! x. 115Building paper should be used under the iron above the shearing board.1845DarwinVoy.Nat.vii. (1870) 138To prefer the tall trees..for its *building-place.1776A. SmithW.N. (1869) II. v. ii. 432The *building rent is the interest or profit of the capital expended in building the house.1848MillPol.Econ.v. iii. §6 (1876) 501.1871Geo.Eliot Middlem. i. iv. 52They were driving home from an inspection of the new *building-site.1966D. JenkinsEducated Society ii. 50Constructive forces..have no more attraction than building sites.1846DoddBrit.Manuf.VI. 147Every ship-yard has got one or more ‘*building-slips’.1894Building slip[see slipn.³ 1 b].1848H. C. RobinsonDiary 31 Dec. (1967) 250Miss Martineau..is now full of a prospect of forming here *building-societies for the benefit of the poor in imitation of the Birmingham societies.1852Geo.Eliot Let.21 Oct. (1954) 62There has been an intelligent gentleman visitor today who is interested in Miss Martineau's Building Society.1862Ld.St.Leonards Vendors & Purch. 377The members of a building society, whose land was vested in trustees for them.1965J. L. HansonDict.Econ.51/2Building societies, institutions which accept deposits and then use their funds to lend on mortgage to people who wish to buy their own houses.1790Pennsylv. Packet 2 Jan. 4/4Bourdeaux rough hewn *building stone.1924R. M. Ogdentr.Koffka's Growth of Mind v. 325Building-stone of a peculiar shape.1705Lond.Gaz.No.4158/4They intend to Let to Farm a *Building Term in several Houses.1607NordenSurv.Dial.210The Oke, Elme and Ash..indeed are *building trees.▪ II.ˈbuilding,ppl.a.[f.asprec.+ -ing².]That builds. Also in comb. as Babel-building.1727De FoeSyst.Magic i. i. (1840) 12That foolish Babel-building age.1832TennysonMay Queen 61The building rook.1843CarlylePast &Pr.(1858) 184Building beavers.