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Title: A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architects
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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often a special prepa-ration marketed in many different tints. MORTICE ; MORTISE. A hole or recess,rather long and narrow, and usually withparallel sides, formed in one piece of a structureto receive and hold securely another correspond-ing part: as a tenon in wood framing ; the lockof a door. Chase Mortice One which is extendedon one side by a chase or groove of thesame width, the bottom of the chase made.sloping, so as to form an incline from thebottom of the mortice to the surface. It maybe formed in one or both of two oppositeimmovable parts for the insertion of a beam orother crosspiece. One end of the latter beinginserted, the other may be revolved so as topass along the chase and enter the morticeproper. Pulley Mortice. A. A mortice to contain apulley in a Cased Frame. B. Same as Chase Mortice. Stub Mortice. A shallow mortice hole955 MOSAIC which does not jiass through the entire thick-ness of the timber in which it is made. Through Mortice. A mortice passingthrough the timber.
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Mortise put to Unusual Service: to hold aCorbel firmly in Place in Solid Cut-stoneMasonry; Syria, 5th Century, a.d. MORTUARY CHAPEL, etc. (See thenouns.) MOSAIC. The decoration of surfaces bymeans of inlaid substances. In an architecturalsense it denotes the decoration of pavements,wall surfaces, and fixed furniture by means ofcoloured marbles, glass, or other durable materi-als. It has various subdivisions corresjiondingto the matter ami maimer employed. Thus,OjJis Lithostrat((m signifies all sorts of stonemosaic, such, for example, as marble pavementsin large patterns : Oims Sectile, any mosaic inwhich the material is cut into regular pieces;Opus Tesselatum (checkered), a variety ofOjyns /Sectile in wliich the geometrical patternsformed by straight lines are used; while OpusVermicuhUum (imitating the track of worms)includes the representation of the more variedforms of animate and inanimate nature. OjnisAle.raitdrinHm is another form of Opus Sectile,where but few colours are used, s

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