 | John Henry Parker - Architecture - 1845 - 438 pages
...pleyn posts." Accounts of Little Suxlmm, Gage's Suffolk, p. 148. DORMER, DORMER-WINDOW, ITAL. Abbaino : a window pierced through a sloping roof, and placed...earlier date than the middle of the fourteenth century. DORMITORY, Hotter, Dorttmre, FR. Dormitoire, Dortoir, ITAL. Dormitorio, GER. ©cfylafgemad) : a sleeping... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1847 - 518 pages
...donnative potion," Cobler of Canterburie, 1608 DORMEDORY. A sleepy, stupid, inactive person. Here/. DORMER. A window pierced through a sloping roof, and...a small gable which rises on the side of the roof. Oxf. Gloss. Arch. In Herefordshire, an attic window projecting from the roof is called a dormit. DORMOND.... | |
 | John Henry Parker - 1850 - 562 pages
...Gage's Suffolk, p. 148. DORMER, DORMER-WINDOW, Lucarne, FK., Abbaino, ITAL., gufe, Sacf^fenSter, GER. : a window pierced through a sloping roof, and placed...earlier date than the middle of the fourteenth century. DORMITORY, Dorter, Dortoure, Dormiloire, Dortoir, FR., Dormilorio, ITAL., ©djlafgemacfy, GER.: a sleeping... | |
 | John Weale - 1850 - 590 pages
...base in this order. Dorman tree, a large beam lying across a room ; a joist, or sleeper Dormer window, a window pierced through a sloping roof, and placed...a small gable which rises on the side of the roof Dormitory, a sleeping apartment; a term formerly applied to the sleeping-room of the inmates of monasteries... | |
 | John Weale - Architecture - 1859 - 622 pages
...Dormán tree, a large beam lying •cross a room ; a joist, or bleeper. Dormer window, a window pierce<l through a sloping roof, and placed in a small gable which rises on the side of the roof. Dormitory, a sleeping apartment ; a term formerly applied to the sleeping-room of the inmates of monasteries... | |
 | John Henry Parker - Architecture - 1866 - 326 pages
...the hangings on the walls of a hall, especially behind the dais; or in a church, behind the altar. Dormer, a window pierced through a sloping roof, and...rises on the side of the roof. There do not appear to he any dormers now existing of an earlier date than the middle of the fourteenth century. It was usually... | |
 | Émile Souvestre - French language - 1895 - 284 pages
...forming the angle above the window.' The window was evidently a dormer-window, ie one pierced through the sloping roof and placed in a small gable, which rises on the side of the roof (se dresse sur le toit). Arêtes =lit. 'fishbones.' PAGE 79 Line 10. perdait, 'used to waste.' av.,... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1901 - 528 pages
...dormative potion," Cobler of Canterburie, 1608. DORMEDORY. A sleepy, stupid, inactive person. Heref. DORMER. A window pierced through a sloping roof, and...a small gable which rises on the side of the roof. Oxf. Gloss. Arch. In Herefordshire, an attic window projecting from the roof is called a dormil. DORMOND.... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Mackey - 1912 - 508 pages
...supposed to give light to the Holy of Holies. In the Glossary of Architecture, a dormer is defined to be a window pierced through a sloping roof, and placed...a small gable which rises on the side of the roof. This symbol is not preserved in the American system. Dotage. The regulations of Masonry forbid the... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Mackey - Freemasonry - 1916 - 504 pages
...Holies. In the Glossary of Architecture, a dormer is defined to be a window pierced through a eloping roof, and placed in a small gable which rises on the side of the roof. This symbol is not preserved in the American system. Dotage. The regulations of Masonry forbid the... | |
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Dormer, a window pierced through a sloping roof, and placed in a small gable which rises on the side of the roof. There do not appear to be any dormers now existing of an earlier date than the middle of the fourteenth century. 
