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Atrium :: Atrium (n.) An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.

Loggia :: Loggia (n.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room..

Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.

Drive :: Drive (v. t.) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.

Piazza :: Piazza (n.) An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda..

Sill :: Sill (n.) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.

Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.

Jube :: "Jube (n.) gallery above such a screen, from which certain parts of the service were formerly read..

Camonflet :: Camonflet (n.) A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners..

Poecile :: Poecile (n.) The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught.

Exhibit :: Exhibit (v. t.) To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery..

Oriel :: Oriel (n.) A gallery for minstrels.

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A working drift or level.

Trapper :: Trapper (n.) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal..

Loft :: Loft (n.) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft..

Balcony :: Balcony (n.) A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater..

Ambulatory :: Ambulatory (n.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building..

Rib :: Rib (n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.

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