BUILDING is also used for the art of constructing and raising an edifice; in which sense it comprehends as well the expences as the invention and execution of the design.
As for the materials of buildings, they are either stone, as marble, free-stone, brick for the walls, mortar, &c. or of wood, as fir, cypress, cedars for pillars of upright uses, oak for summers, beams, and crop-work, or for joining and connection. See ARCHITECTURE.