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1. architective, adj. View full entry 1611
...Pertaining to architecture; fitted for or characterized by construction....
2. breastsummer | bressummer, n. View full entry 1611
...A ‘summer’ or beam extending horizontally over a large opening, and sustaining the whole superstructure of wall, etc.; e.g. the beam over a shop-front, the lower beam of the front of a...
3. bridged, adj. View full entry 1611
...Furnished with a bridge or bridges; spanned or traversed with bridges....
4. calcinatory, adj. and n. View full entry 1611
...Serving for calcination....
5. cantoned, adj. View full entry 1611
...Formed or divided into cantons....
6. cartouche, n. View full entry 1611
...Mil....
7. † carˈtouse, n. View full entry 1611
...A modillion or corbel; = cartouche2a....
8. † ˈchainage, n. View full entry 1611
...A fastening with a chain; chaining....
9. chase, n.3 View full entry 1611
...The hollow furrow or ‘gutter’ on a cross-bow wherein the arrow lies. Obs....
10. cilery | cillery, n. View full entry 1611
...‘The drapery or foliage carved on the heads of columns.’...
11. closer, n.2 View full entry 1611
...One who or that which closes (in various senses of the vb.)....
12. deafen, v. View full entry 1611
...trans. To make deaf, to deprive of the power of hearing; to stun with noise. Also fig....
13. drill, n.2 View full entry 1611
...An instrument for drilling or boring; applied to contrivances of many kinds for boring holes in metal, stone, and other hard substances, from a pointed steel tool to an elaborate drilling machine....
14. entablature, n. View full entry 1611
...Archit. That part of an order which is above the column; including the architrave, the frieze, and the cornice....
15. excavation, n. View full entry 1611
...The action or process of digging out a hollow or hollows in (the earth, etc.); an instance of the same; the result or extent of the process....
16. flatting, n.1 View full entry 1611
...The action or process of laying, pressing, or beating out flat; spec. the process of rolling metal into plates; also in Glass-making, the process of flattening a split...
17. furnisher, n. View full entry 1611
...One who furnishes, in senses of the vb.; spec. one who supplies furniture....
18. girder, n.1 View full entry 1611
...A main beam in a framed floor, supporting the system of joisting that carries the flooring....
19. ˈglass-work, n. View full entry 1611
...pl. (rarely sing.) The works or factory where glass is made....
20. ˈgold-ˌfinder, n. View full entry 1611
...One whose occupation it is to find gold....
