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alphabet derived from the Roman, and employed in the manuscript of Italy. -- Lombardic architecture, the debased Roman style of architecture as found in parts of Northern Italy. F. G. Lee. Lombardy poplar. (Bot.) See Poplar.

An ornament much used in Egyptian architecture, generally asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian water lily.

r resembling, the art or style of the times of Louis XIV. of France; as, Louis quatorze architecture.

lozenge. [Obs.] Walpole. -- Lozenge-molding (Arch.), a kind of molding, used in Norman architecture, characterized by lozenge-shaped ornaments.

A chiton.

Majestic. Cowley. An older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. M. Arnold. -- Ma*jes"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Ma*jes"tic*al*ness, n.

assive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as…

used cacao as a medium of exchange, and were workers of gold, silver, and copper. Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and places, and they possessed a superior calendar, and a developed system of hieroglyphic writing, with records said to go back to about 700 a. d.

Of or relating to the Middle Ages; as, mediæval architecture. [Written also medieval.]

See Mechitarist.

l substances are taken by digging; -- distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural purposes are taken, and which are called quarries.

ral cotton. See Mineral wool (below). -- Mineral green, a green carbonate of copper; malachite. -- Mineral kingdom (Nat. Sci.), that one of the three grand divisions of nature which embraces all inorganic objects, as distinguished from plants or animals. -- Mineral oil. See Naphtha, and Petroleum. -- Mineral paint,…

Cast; form; shape; character. Crowned with an architrave of antique mold. Pope.

Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors. Moorish architecture, the style developed by the Moors in the later Middle Ages, esp. in Spain, in which the arch had the form of a horseshoe, and the ornamentation admitted no representation of animal life. It has many points of resemblance to the Ar…

The Moresque style of architecture or decoration. See Moorish architecture, under Moorish. [Written also mauresque.]

dance. Marston. (c) One who dances the Moorish dance. Shak. (d) Moresque decoration or architecture.

Fumitory. -- Mountain goat. (Zoöl.) See Mazama. -- Mountain green. (Min.) (a) Green malachite, or carbonate of copper. (b) See Green earth, under Green, a. -- Mountain holly (Bot.), a branching shrub (Nemopanthes Canadensis), having smooth oblong leaves and red berries. It is found in the Northern United States. --…

Many-valved; having more than two valves; -- said of certain shells, as the chitons.

gnating, the modern revival of classical, esp. Greco-Roman, taste and manner of work in architecture, etc.

One of the chitinous supports, or veins, in the wings of incests.