·adj Watchful; alert.
II. Erect ·vi To rise upright.
III. Erect ·adj Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
IV. Erect ·adj Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
V. Erect ·adj Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, ·etc.
VI. Erect ·vt To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like.
VII. Erect ·adj Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.
VIII. Erect ·vt To Animate; to Encourage; to Cheer.
IX. Erect ·adj Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.
X. Erect ·vt To lift up; to Elevate; to Exalt; to Magnify.
XI. Erect ·vt To set up or establish; to Found; to Form; to Institute.
XII. Erect ·vt 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.
XIII. Erect ·vt 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.