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A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like.

Growing by the side of a petal, as a stamen.

Having a parapet.

g from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.

und of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet. En barbette, In barbette, said of guns when they are elevated so as to fire over the top of a parapet, and not through embrasures. -- Barbette gun, or Barbette battery, a single gun, or a number of guns, mounted in barbe…

, etc., of the battery. -- In battery, projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for firing. -- Masked battery, a battery artificially concealed until required to open upon the enemy. -- Out of battery, or From battery, withdrawn, as a gun, to a position for loading.

One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.

A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet.

The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.

Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.

A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers. [Obs.]

A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.

ope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.

roof, fitting upon it like a saddle. -- Interior crest (Fort.), the highest line of the parapet.

That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.

-- Dead angle (Mil.), an angle or space which can not be seen or defended from behind the parapet. -- Dead block, either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car. -- Dead calm (Naut.), no wind at all. -- Dead center, or Dead point (Mach.), either of two points in…