Rudimentary dictionary of terms used in architecture [&c.].1850 |
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... metal , commonly mixed with the precious metals Alluvium , the débris occasioned by causes still in operation , as deposits left by the action of rivers , floods , and torrents King Steph . Lincolnshire Wm . Rufus Sussex 1214 ...
... metal , commonly mixed with the precious metals Alluvium , the débris occasioned by causes still in operation , as deposits left by the action of rivers , floods , and torrents King Steph . Lincolnshire Wm . Rufus Sussex 1214 ...
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John Weale. Antimeter , an optical instrument for measuring angles Antimony , a metal usually found in a crude state combined with sulphur , of a bluish - white colour , crystal- line texture , brittle , and easily pul- verized . It does ...
John Weale. Antimeter , an optical instrument for measuring angles Antimony , a metal usually found in a crude state combined with sulphur , of a bluish - white colour , crystal- line texture , brittle , and easily pul- verized . It does ...
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... metal Armoury , a storehouse or room in which armour is preserved Arnotta ( colour ) , the name of a vege- table substance from the West Indies , of an orange - red colour , soluble in water and spirit of wine , but very fugitive and ...
... metal Armoury , a storehouse or room in which armour is preserved Arnotta ( colour ) , the name of a vege- table substance from the West Indies , of an orange - red colour , soluble in water and spirit of wine , but very fugitive and ...
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... metal , or other metal bear- ing , under which the axle journal revolves it is nicely fitted to the journal , and lubricated by a syphon , to reduce , as far as practicable , the friction on the journal Axle , in locomotive engines ...
... metal , or other metal bear- ing , under which the axle journal revolves it is nicely fitted to the journal , and lubricated by a syphon , to reduce , as far as practicable , the friction on the journal Axle , in locomotive engines ...
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... metal bearing in it , which rests upon the polished part of the axle Axle - box cover , in locomotive engines , the plate of iron ( usually lined with leather ) fitted to the top of the axle - box to keep the oil clean , and also from ...
... metal bearing in it , which rests upon the polished part of the axle Axle - box cover , in locomotive engines , the plate of iron ( usually lined with leather ) fitted to the top of the axle - box to keep the oil clean , and also from ...
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ancient angle applied arch architecture architrave Augustine Augustine Henry axis beam Benedictine body boiler bricks buckets building called cast iron centre church Cistercian Cluniac coal colour columns consists construction cubic cubic foot cylinder diameter effect employed entablature equal erected feet fixed foot force frame furnace Gilbertine Gothic architecture gravity heat Henry Henry II heraldry Herefordshire horizontal inch square kind length lime Lincolnshire locomotive engines lower machine measure ment metal mètre modulus of elasticity motion mouldings navigation Northamptonshire ornament painting pigment pipe piston placed plane plate Premonstrant principal proportion pump purpose quantity Roman roof round screw shaft ship ship-building side solid space specific gravity steam engine steel stone style surface temperature temple term thickness tion tube ture tuyère upper valve velocity vertical vessel Vitruvius walls Warwickshire weight wheel wood Yorkshire
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Page 260 - For the Lord •will pass through to smite the Egyptians ; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts...
Page 28 - The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
Page 367 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Page 15 - And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Page 420 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 284 - Jabal : he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
Page 34 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the LOHD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Page 400 - Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
Page 38 - The mercury is sustained in the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the fluid in the cup.
Page 70 - In Constantinople alone, and the adjacent suburbs, he dedicated twenty-five churches to the honour of Christ, the Virgin, and the saints. Most of these churches were decorated with marble and gold ; and their various situation was skilfully chosen in a populous square or a pleasant grove, on the margin of the sea-shore, or on some lofty eminence which overlooked the continents of Europe and Asia. The...