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 1126 GLOSSARIAL INDEX. Cantilevers, 53. Caoutchouc, Indian rubber. Cap (^a mill, 12G0. Capping, 2.'39. Carcass of a building, 524. Carriage for staircase, 2>9, 250. Cart shades, 1089. Carved trusses, 2093. Catacombs, 91fi. Cat bar, 1072. Catch-pieces, 8SP. Causeway, 1073. Causewayed, paved with pebbles, or irregular. shaped stones. Cenotaphs, 1985. Centre.point hinges, 1112. Centring, 238. CAacf, 1311. Chacked, 1066. Chain-plate, fig. 884. Chain-work, 321. Chamfered, or Champhered, 1204. Chased, 85. Chasings, 79. Checked down on, 1778. Cheek-pieces, 889. CAfcse of apples, 1297 and 13<H. Chiffonier, 1690. Cliimed, 983. Chimneys to gas-burners, 20.W. Chitnney bar, 79. Chimney breasts, 79. Chimney jambs, 79, 228. Chimney necks, 983. Chimney pot, a short funnel, made of earthenware, metal, or artificial stone, frequently placed on the summit of the chimney shaft, to prevent smoking. Chimney shaft, called in Scotland chimney stalk, is the part terminating a chimney or flue, which is carried up above the roof. Chimney stack, a number of chimney tops joined together, and placed on one base. Chives, or Cooms, 798. Clamp kilns, 1292. Clatnped, 629, fig. 595. Clcaded, 990. Cleansed hearth-stones, 1435. C/cnr ?n Me ftar, tube, or tunnel, 245. CA"(g malt, 1262. Co6 oarer, 839. Cob walls, 838 to 842. Cockles, iron furnaces with inverted iron pots, for generating heated air Cogged, l(i66. Coke breixe, 2030. Colalla stone, 1576. Columns, a member, in architecture, the plan of which is circular, and which consists of a base, a shaft or body, and a capital, 177. Combed wheat straw, 122. Common chimneys, 228. Composition floor, 585. Cotnpound curves, 1883, fig. 1621. Concrete, 492, 504. Conservatory, a house for keeping exotic plants, either planted in the soil, or in large tubs. When the plants are kept in flower-pots on wooden stages, the house is called a green-house. Consol table, 2110. Continued eaves, 1582. Contracting the throat of a flue, 602. Coombs. See Chives. Cope, 942. Copper-braxed, joined together by heat, in the same manner as soldering. Corbel coins, 981. Corbel stones, 1816. Cornice, a moulded projection which crowns or finishes the member to which it is attached. Cornice slides, 671, fig. 711. Corrugated, wavy, wrinkled, or fluted. Cotleral, 9<t0. Couch, 1262. Countesses. See Slates. Couplings, or Couples, principal rafters, 83. Coursed rubUework, 910. Coved ceilings, 463, fig. 412 Cove-plates, 981. Coving chimneys, 1580. Cowbows, 869. Cowl of a malt kiln, 79S Cramp, a piece of iron for strengthening a stone or wall, or holding two things together. Crane for a kitchen fireplace, 593, fig. 327. Cranks, figs. 271 and 272. Crests of walls, 18(i2. Crib bedsteads, 662. Crib boards, 990, 996. Crippled walls, 839. Crockets, 1836, 1^83, fig. 1626. Crooks and bands, 953, 1116, fig. 1061. Cross braces, 775. Cross-tailed hinges, 1104, 1108, fig. 1058. Crow steps, 1089. Crown glass, 241. 2093. Cubic inches of surveyors, 250. Culms, the hollow stalks of any reed, corn, or grass. Cupple, 1169. Curbed ceilings, 463, fig. 412. Currented, 79, 84. Curtailed step, 1805. Cusps, 1850. Cyliiuirical, a tube circular in the section. D. Dado, in rooms, is the space between the wash- board or base, and the surbase, or moulding; sometimes carried round, about the height of the chair backs, to prevent them from injuring the plaster of the wall. Dais, raised platform. Days of a window, 1883 Dead locks, 1585. Deal keys, 2.38. Deal, matched, 297. Deal slips, 83. Deals, boards. Dentils, Yli; from the Latin word dens, a tooth ; small square blocks or projections, used in the bed mouldings of cornices. Their breadth should be half their height ; and their intervals, according to Vitruvius, two thirds of their breadth. Diagonal strut, or brace, of a gate, 828, fig. 841. Diliher scraper, 690. Diminished styles, 239. Dirt-bin, or dust-hole, a pit or other place, in the kitchen court, for the reception of ashes and other refuse not fit for the pig tub. Discharging arches, 234. Dish and current, a basin in the centre of a cattle, yard, with declining gutters to carry ofl"the wet Di.yirjiscr, VJGG. D/stciu/hr, a mode of colouring walls, &c., 573. District mill, floors wanted to render one comi)lete, 1255. Distyle in antis, 183.3. Dog-legged staircase, a staircase in which the stairs rest on a spandril, or on a string, on one side, and are housed into the wall, on the other, 1903. Domestic telegraph, 1456. Door of two leaves, or Folding door, a door opening in the middle. Door bracket, 65. Door soles, 1073. Dormer ivindow, a window placed on the inclined plane of the roof of a house, with its frame in a vertical position. Dots, 1589. Double-hung, 927. Double-margined styles, 239. Double-sunk sill, 983. Dovecote, 771. Dovetailed, 83, 238. Dowels, 1297. Dragon ties, I.Wi Dram limlier battens, 1208. Draught hole, 1266. Draughted and broached, 1089^ Draughted and scappled, 939. Draivhack lock, 239. Draun, 1750. Drawn about, 989. Drawn battens, 1124. Drcised, 240. Dressed paving-bricks, 234. Dressing-barn, 1067. Drip-moulding of a chimney, figs. 879 to 882. Drip-mouldings to ivindoius, fig. 877. Droved mnriiins, 1089. Droved stone, 911. D)-um, or Cylinder, 1398. Dry larder, 1707.