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ing plates of metal, used in the 15th century; -- the origin of the modern epaulette. Fairholt.

osed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use. Fairholt.

usually contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter. Fairholt.

ced in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church. Fairholt.

See Favus, n., 2. Fairholt.

he mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator. Fairholt.

he common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded. Fairholt. No citizen thought himself safe unless he carried under his coat a small flail, loaded with lead, to brain the Popish assassins. Macaulay.

A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling. Fairholt.

ly writers on art, though commonly designating the yellow oxide of lead, or massicot. Fairholt.

Megilp. Fairholt.

The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch. Fairholt.

pus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune. Fairholt.

A closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal. Fairholt.

A piece of woodland; a small wood. [Obs.] See Holt.

A maker of images. Fairholt.

nce to the juxtaposition of different colors and tints in forming a harmonious whole. Fairholt.

the breath; to animate. When Zephirus eek, with his sweete breath, Inspirèd hath in every holt and health The tender crops. Chaucer. Descend, ye Nine, descend and sing, The breathing instruments inspire. Pope.

ment worn in the 18th century; esp., a woman's riding habit, buttoned down the front. Fairholt.

y Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcal Club. Fairholt.

In mediæval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription. Fairholt.