GLOSSARY.
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witli Icafrtge, and having small volutes projecting at eicli angle of it. Tho hase is shown
in/^.
13G8. The two following capitals, y(V/s. 1385 and 1386, are those to which our
knowledge is confined of the use of this order in Greece. The first one can, however,
scarcely
be considered Corinthian, and the second one not very strictly so : the'iuonu-
meut was erected about 330 b.c. See Choeagic Monument.
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Fig. 13F5.
Temple of the Winds at Athens.
Fig. 1386.
Choragic Monument of Lysicrates at Athens.
Cornice. (Fr. Corniche.) Any monlded projection which crowns or finishes the part to
which it is affixed ; as the cornice of an order, of a pedestal, of a pier, door, window,
honse, &c. The cornice of an order is a secondary member of the order itself, being
the upper subdivision of the entablature.
Corona. (Lat.) A member of tho cornice, with a broad vertical face, and usv.ally of
considerable prcjection. The solid, out of which it is formed, is commonly recessed
upwards from its sofite, and this part by the English workmen is called the ?;/>, because
it facilitates the fall of the rain from its edge, by which the parts below it are sheltered.
The situation of the corona is between the cymatium above, and the bed-moulding below.
Corona Lucis. A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of a church, to
hold tapers or gas jets.
Corridor. (It. Corridore.) A gallery or passage round a quadrangle leading to tho
various apartments. Also, any gallery of communication to them.
CoRSA. (Lat.) In ancient architecture, the name given by Vitruvius to any platband or
square fascia whose height is greater than its projection.
CoRTiLE. (It.) A small court or area, quadrangular or curved, in a dwelling-house,
which is surrounded by the buildings of the house itself.
Cottage. (Sax. Cot.) A small house or dwelling for a poor person.
Cottage Orneb. A small villa erected in the country, emulating tho houses of a rural
character, and not affecting to display exteriorly any particular style. They wore very
fashionable at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Counter
Drain. A drain parallel to a canal or embanked water-course, for collecting tho
soakage water by the side of the canal or embankment to a culvert or arched drain
under the canal, by which it is conveyed to a lower level.
Counterfort. (Fr.) A buttress or pier built against and at right angles to a wall to
strengthen it.
Counter
Gauge. In carpentry, the measure of the joints by transff
erring, as, for instance,
the
breadth of a mortise to the place on the other timber, where the tenon is to bo made
to adapt them to each other.
Counter Lath.
One placed between every couple of gauged ones.
CouNTERPAETS
OF A BuiLDiNG. The Similar and equal parts of the design on each side of
the
middle of the edifice.
Counter Sink.
The sinking a cavity in a piece of timber or other material to receive a
projection on the piece which is connected with it, as for the reception of a phito of iron,
or the head of a screw or bolt.
Coupled
Columns.
Those arranged in pairs half a diameter apart.
Couples. A term
used in the North to signify rafters framed together in pairs with a tie
fixed
above their feet. The main couples answer to the trusses.
Course.
(Lat. Cursus.) A continued level range of stones or bricks of the same height
throughout
the face or faces of a building. Coursed maso7iry is that therefore wherein
the
stones are laid in courses. The course
of
the face of
an arch is tho face of the arch
Btones,
whose
joints radiate to the centre. The course
of
a
plinth is its continuity in
the face of the wall. A boxd course is that whose stones are inserted into the wall lar-
