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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..

Countermine :: Countermine (n.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.

Baluster :: Baluster (n.) A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade..

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.

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

Auget :: Auget (n.) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied..

Deep :: Deep (superl.) Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep..

Eking :: Eking (v. t.) The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.

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

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

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..

Arcade :: Arcade (n.) A long, arched building or gallery..

Chase :: Chase (v.) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point..

Balcony :: Balcony (n.) A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.

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

Veranda :: Veranda (n.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia..

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..

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..

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