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An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women. Fairholt.

deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it again to the action if acid. Fairholt.

a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions. Fairholt.

Armor for the upper part of the arm. Fairholt.

immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls. [Also spelt reredosse.] Fairholt.

screen, between the choir and the body of the church, over which the rood was placed. Fairholt. -- Rood tower (Arch.), a tower at the intersection of the nave and transept of a church; -- when crowned with a spire it was called also rood steeple. Weale. -- Rood tree, the cross. [Obs.] "Died upon the rood tree." Gower…

dge, -- used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving. Fairholt.

d, an ocherous red pigment resembling Venetian red, but slightly yellower and warmer. Fairholt. -- Spanish reef (Naut.), a knot tied in the head of a jib-headed sail. -- Spanish sheep (Zoöl.), a merino. -- Spanish white, an impalpable powder prepared from chalk by pulverizing and repeated washings, -- used as a whit…

tation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station of the cross. Fairholt. Station bill. (Naut.) Same as Quarter bill, under Quarter. -- Station house. (a) The house serving for the headquarters of the police assigned to a certain district, and as a place of temporary confinement. (b) The house us…

owed to be worn by courtesans, or by women who had been divorced from their husbands. Fairholt.

See Tasse. Fairholt.

tes, as of horn or metal, overlapping like tiles; -- said of a kind of ancient armor. Fairholt.

e of two secondaries. "The so-called tertiary colors are citrine, russet, and olive." Fairholt. -- Tertiary period. (Geol.) (a) The first period of the age of mammals, or of the Cenozoic era. (b) The rock formation of that period; -- called also Tertiary formation. See the Chart of Geology. -- Tertiary syphilis (Med.…

s a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes. Fairholt.

suspended by chains; -- used especially at mass, vespers, and other solemn services. Fairholt.

onnects all the tones of a piece, we may, with Fétis, term the principle of tonality. Helmholtz.

or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another. Fairholt.

n, or the like, to be viewed by natural or artificial light, which shines through it. Fairholt.

ng of a purer and tenderer gray that produced by the mixture of more positive colors. Fairholt.

y by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue. Fairholt. No vair or ermine decked his garment. Sir W. Scott. Counter vair (Her.), a fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures.