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Title: An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Mollett, John W. (John William)
Subjects: Art -- Dictionaries Archaeology -- Dictionaries
Publisher: London, S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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razie in thatcity. (See Reticella.) (Fig. 460.) Miliarium, R. (i) A tall narrow copper vessel employed in baths for heating the water. (2) The column of an olive-press (tra-petuni), which rose from the centre of the mortar (niortariiciii). Military Architecture. The science of build-ing fortresses and fortifying town walls, &c.(See Viollet le Due, Essai siir rArehitectm-cuiilitaire an Moyen As;e.\ Milled Money, with grooved edges, was first coined in this country in 1561. Millefiori. Mosaic glass. (See Glass.) Milliarium, R. (w/Z/t-, a thousand, sc. paces).A colunmn placed at intervals of a mile (1618 English yards) along a Roman road to indicate the distance. (Fig. 461.) It was also called/(///j.Milliarium aureuin was the name given to thegolden mile-stone erected by Augustus in theForum, where the principal roads of the Empire Icrminaled. A stone, called the London ART AND ARCH/EOLOGY. 213 Stone, in Cannon Street, E.G., is supposed to have marked the centre of the Roman roads in Britain.
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Fig. 461. Roman Mile-stone at Nic-sur-Aisne in France. Mill-rind, Fer-de-Moline, Her. The iron fixed to the centre of a millstone. Millstone-grit. The name of a good building stone, plentiful in the north of England. It is supposed to be formed by a re-aggregation of the disintegrated materials of granite. (See the Bitildcr, vol. ix. 639.) Millus, R. (See Melium.) Mimbar, Arabic. A pulpit in a mosque. A finely-carved mimbar is in the South Kensington Museum. Minah. Minar, Hind. A tower or pillar.The Siirkh Minar and Miliar Chakri, amongthe topes at Cal:)ul, are almost the only pillarsexisting in India. They are generally ascribedto Alexander the Great, but are probablyBuddhist monuments of the 3rd or 4th century of our era. Minaret (Arabic menarali, a lantern). A feature peculiar to Mohammedan architecture. A tall, slender shaft or turret, rising high above all surrounding buildings of the niosqiic to which it is attached; in several stories, with or without external galleries, but usuall

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