Strŭc'tŭre, n.
(strŭkt'yūr), n. [Lat. structura, from struere, structum, to join together, to construct; Fr. structure, Sp. estructura, It. struttura.]
Sense 1. The act of building; practice of erecting buildings. [Rare.]
His son builds on, and never is content Till the last farthing is in structure spent. Dryden.
Sense 2. Manner of building; form; make; construction. “Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe.” Woodward.
Sense 3. Arrangement of parts, or of constituent particles, in a substance or body; as, the structure of a rock or a mineral.
Sense 4. Manner of organization, as the structure of animals or vegetables, or of any of their parts.
Sense 5. A building of any kind, but chiefly a building of some size, or of magnificence; an edifice.
There stands a structure of majestic frame. Pope.