a building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.-a cupola formed on a large scale.-any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.-a prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.-decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.