Obs. [f. BUILD v.; mode of formation uncertain; cf. gilt, f. gild; also BUILD sb. and BUILTH.]

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  1.  Style of construction (of a ship, etc.), build.

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c. 1615.  Chapman, Odyss., XI. 146. A sail Of foreign built.

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1658.  in Hist. Glasgow (1881), 243. Excelling the model and usual built of townhalls.

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1666.  Dryden, Ann. Mirab., lx. And as the built, so different is the fight.

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1764.  Reid, Inquiry, vi. § 20. The sailor sees the burthen, the built, and the distance of a ship at sea.

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1794.  W. Roberts, Looker-on, III. 408. Friendship and love require … a peculiar built of mind.

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  2.  Action of building.

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1654.  G. Goddard, in Burton, Diary (1828), I. 88, note. A constant and continual built of ships.

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