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INVENTORY OF MONUMENTS IN EAST LOTHIAN.

Plate tracery.-A pattern pierced in the stone work filling the arch of a window.
Quadripartite vault.-A vault divided into four compartments by ribs or groins.
Quillons.-The arms forming the cross-guard of a sword.
Quirk.-A sharp edged channel as part of a moulding.
Quoins or Quoin Stones.-Dressed corner stones.
Raggle.-A groove cut in masonry to receive the material forming a joint, especially on a wall
to receive the edge of a roof.
Ravelin.-In fortification a detached triangular work having two faces meeting in a salient angle
towards the front.
Re-entering or Re-entrant angle.-An angle pointing inwards.
Reredos.-A hanging, decorated wall or screen of stone or wood at the back of an alter.
Roundel or Roundle.-A round disc of different metals and colours (Heraldry).
Rounds.-Turrets projecting from the angles of a parapet walk ; used even of turrets square on plan.
Rybat.-Dressed stone reveal or side-piece for windows, doors, etc.
Sacrament house.-A cupboard or aumbry used for the reservation of the Host.
Saltire.-A St. Andrew's cross (Heraldry).
Samian ware.-A reddish, patterned ware of Roman times.
Sanctuary.-The division of a church in which the High Alter stood.
Scarp, Escarp, Escarpment.-The inner slope of the ditch of a fortified place.
Scoinson.-Inner edge of the side or jamb of a window or door : the " scoinson arch " is the
inner arched head of such an opening.
Screens.-A partition either of timber or stone which separated the Hall from the service space,
sometimes applied to the space cut off ; also the low dividing partitions in a church.
Sedilia.-Seats for the officiating clergy, usually on the south side of an alter.
Set-off or Off-set.-A narrow sloping ledge on the face of a buttress.
Shawm.-A mediaeval wind instrument with a globular mouthpiece.
Skew-put.-The lowest stone of the skew or coping of a gable, projecting over the wall.
Soffit.-The under-side of a staircase, lintel, cornice, arch, canopy, etc.
Sollerets.-Pointed shoes of articulated plate armour.
Squinch arch.-An arch across a re-entrant angle (q.v.).
Stringcourse.-A horizontal line of projecting mouldings carried along a building.
Stuck moulded.-Where a moulding is wrought on the rail or stile and not applied in a separate
piece.
Tardenoisian.-An early stage of neolithic culture characterised by very small or " pigmy " flint
artefacts : named from a typical site in France.
Tasses or Taces.-Rows of overlapping steel bands below the breastplate as a defence for the
hips and lower part of the body.
Tempera.-A form of distemper, i.e., mural painting in colours with a medium soluble in water.
Tierceron ribs.-In vaulting, an intermediate rib or ribs between the main ribs and following
their direction.
Transom (timber).-Cross piece.
Tressure.-A narrow border within the shield narrower than the orle (q.v.), generally borne
double, and in the Royal Arms of Scotland with fleurs-de-lys (irises) on either side, i.e., flory
and counterflory (Heraldry).
Triforium.-The gallery or arcade, usually without windows and so a " blind-storey, " above the
main arcade and below the clearstorey (q.v.).
Turnpike.-A circular staircase with solid cylindrical newel.
Tympanum.-An enclosed space in the head of an arch, doorway, etc., or in a triangle of a
pediment.
Vallum.-An earthen or turf rampart.
Vesica.-Properly vesica piscis, so termed from its supposed resemblance to the bladder of a fish,
is a window of pointed oval form.
Vice.-A small circular staircase.
Viol.-An early form of violin.
Void.-An unfilled space in a wall, serving as a door or window.
Voussoirs.-The wedge-like stones forming an arch.
Yett.-A gate.

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