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GLOSSARY.
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Cartridge
"
is a stronger sort for working drawings. For rough stet^^hing. a thin
paper, the
"
lining paper" of the paperhangers, is much used, and is obtained in a roil
of twelve yards in length. Continuous cartoon paper is 3 ft. 4 in., 4 ft., and 5 ft.
wide. Tinted papers can also be so obtained. For mapping or such work a strong
continuous paper is made, and ready mounted on hollaud for extra strength. See
Tkacing rAPEK.
Papeehangings. The paper prepared, either plain or with a pattern printed upon it, for
covering the walls o* rooms. The varieties are very numerous. The better sort are
still printed from wood-blocks, but the inferior kind are printed by machinery.
Fapykus Capital. A species of capital seen in some of the temples of Egypt. See
fff.
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Parabola. (Gr. Tlapa, through, and BaAAoj, I throw.) In geometry, a curved line formed
by the common intersection of a conic surface, and a plane cutting it parallel to another
plane touching the conic surface.
Parabolic Assymptote. In geometry, a line continually approaching the curve, but
which, though infinitely produced, will never meet it.
Parabolic Curve. The curved boundary of a parabola, and terminating its area, except
at the double ordinate.
Paeabolic Spinal, or Helicoid. A curve arising from the supposition of the axis of the
common parabola bent into the periphery of a circle, the ordinates being portions of the
radii next the circumference.
Paraboloid. See Conoid.
Parallel. (Gr. napoAA7jA.os.) In geometry, a term applied to lines, surfaces, &c., that
are in every part equidistant from each other.
Parallel Coping. See Coping.
Parallelogram. (Gr.) Any four-sided rectilineal figure, whose opposite sides are
parallel.
Parallelopiped. In geometry, one of the regular bodies or solids comprehended under
six faces, each parallel to its opposite face, and all the faces parallelogranis.
Paramkter. (Gr. Tlapa, through, and Mfrpw, L meature
)
In conic sections a constant
right line in each of the three sections, called also latus rectum.
Parapet. (Ital. Parapetto, breast high.) A small wall of any material for protection on
the bides of bridges, quajs, or high buildings.
Pabascenium. Another name for the posticeniwnin the ancient theatre.
Parastat^. See Ant^e.
Parclose. The screen which separates chapels (especially at the east end of the
aisles) from the body of the church. They are usually of wood, but are also sometimes
of stone.
Parget. A name given to the rough plaster used for lining chimney flues, and formed of
lime and cow's dung.
Parge AVurk
;
Pargetting. A particular sort of plaster work, having patterns and
ornaments raised upon it or indented
; much used in interior decorations, aud ofteu on
the exterior of half-timber houses, during the ElizMbt-than period.
Parker's Cement, also called Roman Cement in 1796. It is manufactured princi-
pally from nodules found in the Isle of Slieppey and at Harwich, being scptaria
from the London clay. When burnt, it is ground into powder, and mixed with
sand, and water being applied to it, it sets fast and very hard, aud is impervious to
water.
PARL(iUR. (Fr.) A room for conversation, which in the old monasteries adjoined the
buttery and pantry at the lower end of the liall. At the present day it is used to
denote the room in a house where visitors are commonly received, and often serves as
a dining-room.
Parados. (Gr.) The grand entrance of the scene of an ancient theatre that conducted
on to the stage and orchestra.
Parpeyn. See Perpeyn-Wall.
Parquetry. Inlaid work, made of thin plates or veneers of hard cf)lonrod woods, and
secured to a framing of deal, well-dried and seasoned, to form the fiooriiig of an apart-
ment. They are arranged in patterns. Of late years solid, and thick, parquetry has
been introduced. The floor may be left plain, but is more frequently polished, there
is also a thin substance, about |ths of an inch thick, which is secured to the old floor
by a patent cement, or by brads. The old method of covering a floor by a carpet, which
collects the dust and covers the furniture with it when swept, is now abandoned in
many houses, and parquetry substituted, with rugs, or square carpets, or Indian
matting, so as to be easily removable for cleansing. A "parquetry border" has also
taken the place of the common, but still useful, stained and varnislied border, around
a square carpet. See Makquktry.
Pai.sonage House. A building, usually near the church, occupied by the incumbent of