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Webster 1913 Edition

(bĭlt)

Noun.

Shape; build; form of structure;

as, the

built

of a ship

[Obs.]

Dryden.

Adj.

Formed; shaped; constructed; made; – often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form;

as, frigate-

built

, clipper-

built

, etc.

Like the generality of Genoese countrywomen, strongly

built

Landor.

pp.

bilt. Framed and raised; constructed.

Noun.

bilt. Form; shape; general figure of a structure; as the built of a ship.

Species of building.