building (2 cf. Err. III. ii. 4 “Shall love, in building, grow so ruinous?,” Sonn. cxix. 11, cxxiv. 5 “[my dear love] was builded far from accident”)
1.
“This jewel
holds his building” (=keeps its place)
Per. II. i. 168 (Malone
and Steevens “biding”†).
2.
edifice (fig.)
Troil. IV. ii. 110
“the strong base and
of
my love,”
Cor. II. i. 218
“the b-s of my
fancy.”
3.
build (of a ship)
Sonn. lxxx. 12
“I am a worthless boat,
He of tall building.”
