A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic architecture, illustrated by four hundred and forty woodcuts (1846)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford: J. H. Parker · leaf 245
23 i SCAPPLE SCEEEN. done by chopping immediately it is dag in the quarry : the term is now used exclusively (or nearly so) in refer- ence to stone, but was formerly applied to timber also, and must have signified the barking of a tree, or, more probably, squaring it with the axe. ScAECEMENT, a… … „ IT* Scotia, Troehilus, or Casement. Batlis of Diocletian, Rome. quently employed in Gothic architecture is Casement, ScoucHON, Skouchon. See Squinch. Sceeen, Skeeen, a partition, enclosure, or parclose separating a portion of a room, or of a church, from the rest. In the domestic halls of the…
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