“Acitolein hir right hand had sche.” (Chaucer.)
“Acitolein hir right hand had sche.” (Chaucer.)
“Acitolein hir right hand had sche.” (Chaucer.)
“Acitolein hir right hand had sche.” (Chaucer.)
Cittern.A stringed instrument, like a guitar, strung with wire instead of gut. Thecitternwas at one time a part of the furniture of every barber’s shop, and customers played on it while waiting for their turns. (Niche 1 of Exeter Gallery. SeeClarion.)
Civery, Arch. (SeeSeverey.) A bay or compartment of a vaulted ceiling.
Civic Crown, Her. A wreath of oak leaves and acorns. (SeeCorona.)
Ckuicui, Peruvian. One of the divisions of the temple of the Sun (Inti), so named as being dedicated to the rainbow (Ckuichi). (SeeInti.)
Clabulare.(SeeClavulare.)
ClackorClap-dish, O. E. A box with a movable lid used and rattled by beggars to attract attention:—
“His tongue moves like a beggar’sclapdish.”
“His tongue moves like a beggar’sclapdish.”
“His tongue moves like a beggar’sclapdish.”
“His tongue moves like a beggar’sclapdish.”
Cladeuteria.A Greek festival held in honour of Bacchus, at the time when the pruning of the vines took place.
Fig. 164. Clerestory and Triforium in Worcester Cathedral.
Fig. 164. Clerestory and Triforium in Worcester Cathedral.
Fig. 164. Clerestory and Triforium in Worcester Cathedral.
Claire-voie(Anglicè,Clerestory), Arch. (i. e. clear-storey). A row of large windows, forming the upper storey of the nave of a church, rising clear above the adjoining parts of the building.
Clan(Gaelic,klann, children). A tribe of persons of one common family, united under a chieftain.
Clap-bene, O. E.Benesignifies a prayer, and children were invited by this phrase toclaptheir hands together, as their only means of expressing their prayers.
Clap-dish.(SeeClackdish.)
ClappeorClapper, O. E. A wooden rattle used to summon people to church on the last three days of Passion Week, when the bells were not rung.
Clarenceux, Her. The title of one of the three kings of arms at Heralds’ College. The others are calledGarterandNorroy.
Clarichord, O. E. A stringed instrument, in the form of a spinet, of mediæval times. At the marriage of James of Scotland with the Princess Margaret,A. D.1503, “the king began before hyr to play of theclarychordes, and after of the lute. And upon the said clarychorde Sir Edward Stanley played a ballad, and sange therewith.” (Wharton, “History of English Poetry.”) It is identical with theclavichord, the origin of the spinet, harpsichord, and pianoforte.
Fig. 165, 166. Clarions (heraldic).
Fig. 165, 166. Clarions (heraldic).
Fig. 165, 166. Clarions (heraldic).
Clarion, O. E. A small trumpet, with a shrill sound. (Represented in the third niche of the “Minstrels’ Gallery” of Exeter Cathedral, of which there is a cast in the South Kensington Museum.)
Classic Orders of Architecture.TheGrecian: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian;—and theRoman: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders (q.v.) are generally thus distinguished.
Clathrate.Latticed like a grating (clathri).
Fig. 167. Clathri over bronze doors.
Fig. 167. Clathri over bronze doors.
Fig. 167. Clathri over bronze doors.
Clathri, R. A grating or trellis formed of wooden or metal bars;clathriwere employed to form the imposts over hypæthral doors, and to light the stables (carceres) under the circus, &c. Fig.167represents one of the bronze doors of the Pantheon at Rome with the grating above.