Rudimentary dictionary of terms used in architecture [&c.].1850 |
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... supply is inter- mittent Aisle , the side passage or division of a church , partially separated from the nave and choir by columns or piers Aitre , a hearth or chimney Alabaster , a species of gypsum , a mi- neral substance , chemically ...
... supply is inter- mittent Aisle , the side passage or division of a church , partially separated from the nave and choir by columns or piers Aitre , a hearth or chimney Alabaster , a species of gypsum , a mi- neral substance , chemically ...
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... supply the hanging gardens of Ba- bylon was constructed and used in this the most ancient and splendid city of the early age , founded by the builders of Babel , and enlarged by Nimrod ; extended and beautified by Semiramis . This ...
... supply the hanging gardens of Ba- bylon was constructed and used in this the most ancient and splendid city of the early age , founded by the builders of Babel , and enlarged by Nimrod ; extended and beautified by Semiramis . This ...
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... supply them with the necessary moisture , the engine was erected , of which no account is known at the present time Bac , in navigation , a praam or ferry- boat Bac , in brewing , a cooler Baccalaureus , an ecclesiastical appari- tor or ...
... supply them with the necessary moisture , the engine was erected , of which no account is known at the present time Bac , in navigation , a praam or ferry- boat Bac , in brewing , a cooler Baccalaureus , an ecclesiastical appari- tor or ...
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... supply the mills lower down the river Lea , which might otherwise have been injured by the amount withdrawn from the river by the pumping - engines of the water company . They dif- fer in construction from common flood - gates , being ...
... supply the mills lower down the river Lea , which might otherwise have been injured by the amount withdrawn from the river by the pumping - engines of the water company . They dif- fer in construction from common flood - gates , being ...
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... supply of air to such a nicety : it is preferred therefore to diminish the quantity of light by having a slight excess of air rather than to pro- duce smoke by a deficiency , the former being unquestionably the least evil . Burning ...
... supply of air to such a nicety : it is preferred therefore to diminish the quantity of light by having a slight excess of air rather than to pro- duce smoke by a deficiency , the former being unquestionably the least evil . Burning ...
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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...