(688) BUL

Insulated Building, that which is not contiguous to any other, but is encompassed with streets, open squares, or the like.

Engaged Building, one surrounded with other buildings, having no front to any street or public place, nor any communication without, but by a common passage.

Interred or sunk Building, one whose area is below the surface of the place on which it stands, and of which the lowest courses of stone are concealed.

Building is also used for the art of constructing and raising an edifice; in which sense it comprehends as well the expenses, 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, cypresses, cedars for pillars of upright uses, oak for summers, beams, and crop-work, or for joining and connection. See Architecture.

in the ancient Hebrew chronology, the eighth month of the ecclesiastical, and the second of the civil year; it has since been called Marthevan, and answers to our October.