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A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill. "Every holt and heath." Chaucer. She sent her voice though all the holt Before her, and the park. Tennyson.

A Hindoo caravansary.

A genus of papaveraceous plants, found in California and upon the west coast of North America, some species of which produce beautiful yellow, orange, rose-colored, or white flowers; the California poppy.

substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. Fairholt.

between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning bodies. Fairholt.

Hooks and eyes for armor, etc. Fairholt.

merly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet. Fairholt.

Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air. Fairholt.

A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss. Fairholt.

A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century. [Written also baslard.] Fairholt.

ed in full color; the flesh tints. The flesh tints in painting are termed carnations. Fairholt.

See Choltry.

noisseur is "one who knows," as opposed to the dilettant, who only "thinks he knows." Fairholt.

rs, etc., which by such juxtaposition more vividly express each other's pecularities. Fairholt.

ormed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis. Fairholt.

called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century. Fairholt.

bond. To credit with, to give credit for; to assign as justly due to any one. Crove, Helmholtz, and Meyer, are more than any others to be credited with the clear enunciation of this doctrine. Newman.

A dilettante. Though few art lovers can be connoisseurs, many are dilettants. Fairholt.

early paintings and sculptures are invariably representations of a winged crocodile. Fairholt.

. The casting of draperies . . . is one of the most important of an artist's studies. Fairholt.