Rudimentary dictionary of terms used in architecture [&c.].1850 |
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... vessel broken from her moorings Adumbration , in heraldry , a figure painted of the same colour as the ground of the field , but darker Adytum , the most sacred place in the heathen temples ; the Holy of Ho- lies ; in Christian ...
... vessel broken from her moorings Adumbration , in heraldry , a figure painted of the same colour as the ground of the field , but darker Adytum , the most sacred place in the heathen temples ; the Holy of Ho- lies ; in Christian ...
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... vessel , to pre- vent too great a transmission of heat to the deck Air - drains , cavities between the ex- ternal ... vessels : its effects are produced by the elas- ticity of the air ; and as at each stroke of the pump only a part of ...
... vessel , to pre- vent too great a transmission of heat to the deck Air - drains , cavities between the ex- ternal ... vessels : its effects are produced by the elas- ticity of the air ; and as at each stroke of the pump only a part of ...
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... vessel , the closed cylinder con- nected to the discharge - pipe of a force - pump , and by the action of which the water ejected by the pis- ton or plunger of the pump enters the cylinder and compresses the air within ; it acts as a ...
... vessel , the closed cylinder con- nected to the discharge - pipe of a force - pump , and by the action of which the water ejected by the pis- ton or plunger of the pump enters the cylinder and compresses the air within ; it acts as a ...
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... vessel used for boiling water or keeping it hot ; a cooking utensil Anthracite , a coal not bituminous , found principally in South Wales and in the United States Antics , in architecture , figures of men , beasts , & c . , placed as ...
... vessel used for boiling water or keeping it hot ; a cooking utensil Anthracite , a coal not bituminous , found principally in South Wales and in the United States Antics , in architecture , figures of men , beasts , & c . , placed as ...
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... vessel nearly over her anchor : the yards are a - peek when they are topped up by contrary lifts Aperture , an opening in a wall , door- way , or window Apex , the top or highest point of a cone , mountain , pyramid , spire , roof , & c ...
... vessel nearly over her anchor : the yards are a - peek when they are topped up by contrary lifts Aperture , an opening in a wall , door- way , or window Apex , the top or highest point of a cone , mountain , pyramid , spire , roof , & c ...
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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...