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A long-handled brush for dusting ceilings, etc., also for washing windows. [Cant]

nning a room, usually a movable fanlike frame covered with canvas, and suspended from the ceiling. It is kept in motion by pulling a cord. [Hindostan] [Written also punkah.] Malcom.

ated on an inclined planed plane, such as the vault supporting a stairway, or forming the ceiling of a stairway.

A projecting mold, or group of moldings, forming with others a pattern, as on a ceiling, ornamental door, or the like.

assemblage or arrangement of ribs, as the timberwork for the support of an arch or coved ceiling, the veins in the leaves of some plants, ridges in the fabric of cloth, or the like.

aintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.…

A roof or ceiling covering a semicircular room or recess, or one of nearly that shape, as the apse of a church, a niche, or the like. It is approximately the quarter of a hollow sphere.

a jeweled pin. Setting coat (Arch.), the finishing or last coat of plastering on walls or ceilings. -- Setting dog, a setter. See Setter, n., 2. -- Setting pole, a pole, often iron-pointed, used for pushing boats along in shallow water. -- Setting rule. (Print.) A composing rule.

A bay or compartment of a vaulted ceiling. [Written also civery.]

A window placed in the roof of a building, in the ceiling of a room, or in the deck of a ship, for the admission of light from above.

An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.

A long-handled, round-headed broom for sweeping ceilings, etc. [Colloq. or Dial.]

An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. Gray.

covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus as, a wagonheaded ceiling.

of line and water, or of whiting size, and water, or the like, used for whitening walls, ceilings, etc.; milk of lime.