Part 813

But who is he, by years Bowed, but erect in heart?

Keble.

4. Watchful; alert.

Vigilant and erect attention of mind.

Hooker.

5. (Bot.) Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.

6. (Her.) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.

E*rect", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Erected; p. pr. & vb. n. Erecting.] 1. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.

2. To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.

3. To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.

That didst his state above his hopes erect.

Daniel.

I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.

Dryden.

4. To animate; to encourage; to cheer.

It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.

Barrow.

5. To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like. "To erect conclusions." Sir T. Browne. "Malebranche erects this proposition." Locke.

6. To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute. "To erect a new commonwealth." Hooker.

Erecting shop (Mach.), a place where large machines, as engines, are put together and adjusted.

Syn. -- To set up; raise; elevate; construct; build; institute; establish; found.

E*rect", v. i. To rise upright. [Obs.]

By wet, stalks do erect.

Bacon.

E*rect"a*ble (?) a. Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather. Col. G. Montagu.

E*rect"er (?), n. An erector; one who raises or builds.

E*rect"ile (?), a. [Cf. F. érectile.] Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated.

Erectile tissue (Anat.), a tissue which is capable of being greatly dilated and made rigid by the distension of the numerous blood vessels which it contains.