A Dictionary of Architecture and Building: Biographical, Historical, and Descriptive, Volume 1Macmillan, 1901 |
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Page 311 - De la Distribution des maisons de plaisance et de la décoration des édifices en général...
Page 11 - It may also be defined as the sine of the angle of incidence divided by the sine of the angle of refraction, as light passes from air into the substance.
Page 369 - To dress stone with a broach, generally the second process in stonecutting following the seappling or hammer dressing. (See Stone Dressing.) BROAD STONE. A. Same as ashlar. B. Formerly in English usage paving stones which came from the quarry in broad, thin pieces. — (APS) BROB. A wedge-shaped spike used to secure the end of a timber which butts against the side of another, as a post standing on a sill. In driving, its sloping sides force it close against the side of the member to be secured. BROEBES...
Page 159 - Miletus, and approached by a sacred way bordered on either side by seated figures of archaic type, now in the British Museum. The temple itself was decastyle, dipteral, with 120 columns nearly 65 feet high ; and dates from about 356 BC It was built on the site of two earlier temples, burnt or destroyed respectively by Darius and Xerxes. In the interior of the celia are semidetached columns with fairly developed Corinthian capitals. Notwithstanding the greater size of the temple, its fame was entirely...
Page 119 - An arch in which the impost on one side is higher than that on the other. rampant vault A continuous wagon vault, or a cradle vault, whose two abutments are located on an inclined plane, such as a vault supporting or forming the ceiling of a stairway.
Page 747 - Bauchal, Dictionnaire. DAMON, CAPTAIN ISAAC; architect. Damon studied architecture with Ithiel Town (see Town, I.) of New York, and was from 1812 to 1840 the leading architect in western Massachusetts. Among his works were the first church of Northampton (built 1811, burned in 1878), the first church of Springfield (about 1818, still standing), the church and county courthouse in Lenox (about 1814, still standing). GC Gardner in Am. Architect, Vol. XLVII., p. 40. DAMP COURSE. A course or layer of...
Page 823 - house drain" is applied to that part of the main horizontal drain and its branches inside the walls of the building, vault or area, and extending to and connecting with the house sewer.
Page 463 - ; an erroneous term. CASEMENT. A. A window having hinged or pivoted sash, opening either outward or inward. In North Germany many such windows open outward, and this is preferred, except where it is desired to put up secondary or outer fixed sash (forming " double windows ") in winter. English country houses were commonly fitted with light iron sash in very small casements. These also opened outward, and were 463 held by long hooks or some other form of sashholder.
Page 819 - ... Furnished with, or made up of, two sashes one above the other, arranged to slide vertically past each other ; said of a window. Old houses, both in America and in England, often have only one of the two sashes hung with weights ; the other being fixed, or, if movable, held in place by means of 818 a button or prop ; such may be said to be single hung.
Page 607 - Clean, without impurities or defects ; without admixture. Thus, clear cement is cement unmixed with sand or lime. C. In connection with lumber, free from knots, shakes, sap, and the like. CLEARCOLE. In Great Britain a species of sizing or priming used as an undercoat in painting old work or plaster, or in preparing old papered walls for fresh papering without scraping down. It is composed of white lead ground in water and mixed with sizing, a pound to a quart. (In the French form, Clairecolle.) Rare...