Machicolation: alternatives and connections

A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony i…

A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gall…

See Barbican.

A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be s…

A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling.

To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.

A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.

A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them.

To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to c…

of Fillet

The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.

A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passa…

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which impli…

One who girds; a satirist.

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

of Head

Between lobules; as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein.

of Jut