Erection : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Erection	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Erection
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
erection n an erect penis Synonym(s): erection, hard-on a structure that has been erected the act of building or putting up Synonym(s): erecting, erection
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Erection \Erec"tion\, n. [L. erectio: cf. F. [82]rection.] 1. The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage. 2. The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes. Her peerless height my mind to high erection* draws up. --Sidney 3. State of being stretched to stiffness; tension. 4. Anything erected; a building of any kind. 5. (Physiol.) The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue.