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GLOSSARY.
JOININGS OF Boxings. The pieces of framework of a window into which the window
shutters are folded back.
Linings of a Doob. Those of the sides of apertures of doors called the jambs or jamb-
linings, that which covers the top or head being the soflfite.
Lintel. (Span.) A horizontal piece of timber or stone over a door, window, or other
opening to discharge the superincumbent weight. If a wall be very thick, more than
one lintel piece will be required, unless scantling of sufficient width be found. Li some
old books on carpentry, lintels are classed under wall plates, but the word is now never
used in this sense, unless the joisting or tie beams rest upon it, in which case it is both
a lintel and a wall plate.
liisT, or LisTEL. The same as Fillet.
Listed Eoards. Such as are reduced in their width by taking off the sap from the
sides. They are also explained as boards, sorted and matched, so as to make the floor
appear all of one colour.
Listing. (Participle.) Cutting the sap wood out from both edges of a board.
Loam. A soil in which clay prevails. It is called heavy or light as the clay may be more
or less abundant.
Lobby. (Germ. Laube.) An enclosed space surrounding or communicating with one or
more apartments, such as the boxes of a theatre, for instince. By it also is understood
a small hall or waiting room, or the entrance into a principal apartment where there
is a considerable space between it and a poitico or vestibule; but the dim-nsions,
especially as regards the M'idth, will not allow of its being called a vestibule or ante-room.
Lock. (Sax. Loc.) A well-known instrument, consisting of springs and bolts, for fasten-
ing doors, drawers, chests, &c. A good lock is a masterpiece in smithery, requiring
much art and delicacy to contrive and vary the wards, springs, bolts, and other parts
whereof it is composed, so as to adjust them to the places where they are serviceable,
and to the various purposes of their use. The structure of locks is so varied, and the
number of inventions of their different sorts so extended, that we cannot attempt to
enumerate them.
Those placed on outer doors are called stock-locks, those on chamber doors spring
locks, and rimlocks, and such as are hidden in the thickness of the doors to which thoj
are applied, mortise locks. Tho jwdlock is too well-known to need description here.
LocKRAiL. The middle horizontal rail of
a door.
LocuTORY. An apartment in a monastery
in which the monks were allowed to con-
verse when silence was enjoined else-
where.
Lodge. A small house, situated in a park
or domain, subordinate to the mansion.
Also the cottage placed at the gate
leading to the mansion.
Loft. An upper platform, as in Scotland.
It has been applied to the gallery in a
church. In modern usage it is limited
to the place immediately under the
rafters, as cockloft in a house, hay-lojt
in a stable, &c. See Solau.
Logan. See Eocking Stone.
Logarithms. Artificial numbers used to
facilitate arithmetical calculations.
LoGGLi. (It.) In its strict meaning a
lodge; but usually signifying a gallery
open to the air, and used for shelter, or
from which to obtain a prospect.
Log-house. A hut constructed of the
trunks of trees.
Logistic Spiral. One whose radii are in
continued proportion, and in which the
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radii are at equal angles ; or, in other ^_
words, a spiral line wiiose radii every- ._r:
where make equal angles with the
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tanrents.
Figri4l2.
Lombard Architecttjbb. The class of
Romanesque architecture which prevailed in the Northern parts of Italy.
Li>ng and Short Work. A rough sort of building, consisting of quoin stones placed flat
and upright alternately. Many writers consider such masonry as a mark nf tiie woilf
of the nth century, or previous to it, and call it Saxon work. ScoyiV/. 1112.
Tower of Earl's Barton Church.