GLOSSARY.

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lUARREL, vulgarly called Qcaruy. (Fr. Carre.) A square or lozenge-shaped pieeo of
glass used in lead casements.
tuARiiY. (Irish, Carrig.) A place whence marbles, stones, or slates are procured.
uARRTiNG. The operation of extracting the produce of a quarry is one which requires
much practical knowledge to render it beneficial to its owner ; but in respect of the
details they are not required to be noticed in this work.
tuARTER Grain. See Felt Grain.
tuARTER Pace. See Foot Pace.
tuARTER Partition. One consisting of quarters, or upright pieces of timber receiving
tlie lath and plaster work.
Quarter Round. The same as Ovolo and Echinus, being a moulding whose profile is the
quadrant of a circle.
Quarters. Small vertical timber posts, rarely exceeding four by three inches, used to
form a partition instead of walls for the separation or boundary of apartments. They
are placed, or ought to be, about twelve inches apart, and are usually lathed and
plastered in the internal apartments, but if used for external purposes are commonly
boarded. A series of sucli posts is called Quartering.
iuARTZ. (Germ.) A mineral production better known by the name of rock crystal. It
includes a variety of stones with which we have nothing here to do, and the only motive
for mentioning it is its occurrence in the granites, wherein it is immediately recognised,
from its glass-like appearance.
iuATREFOiL. (Fr. Quatrefeuille.) A modern term denoting a form disposed in four
segments of circles, and so called fromit.5 imagined resemblance to an expanded flower
of four petals. It is only found in the windows, panels, etc., of Gothic architecture.
i,UAY. (Fr.) A bank formed towards the sea or on the side of a river for free passage,
or for the purpose of unloading merchandise.
iuEEN-PosT. A suspending post where there are two in a trussed roof.
iuEEN. A size slate used in roofing.
Quicklime. Lime in lump or in powder, ready for water to be added to it. See Lime.
l,uiRK. A piece taken out of any regular ground-plot or floor
;
thus, if the ground plan were
square or oblong, and a piece were taken out of the corner, such piece is called a quirk.
See Re-entering angle.
iuiRK Moulding. One whose sharp and sudden return from its extreme projection to the
re-entrant angle seems rather to partake of a straight line on the profile than of the
curve. Of this class are a great number of the ancient Greek mouldings.
iuoiNS. (Fr. Coin.) A term applied to any external angle but more especially applied
to tlie angular courses of stone raised from the naked of the wall at the corner of a
building, and called rustic quoins. See Rustic Quoins.
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^Iabbet. See Rebate.
^ACK. The case, enclosed by bars, over the manger in a stable, wherein the hay is placed
for the horses.
^AD and Dab. A substitute for brick nogging in partitions, consisting of cob or a mix-
ture of clay and chopped straw filled in between laths of split oak or hazel. It is also
called wattle and dab.
Radial Curves. In geometry, those of the spiral kind whose ordinates all terminate in
the centre of the including circle, and appear like so many radii of such circle
Radius. In geometry, the semidiameter of a circle, or a right line drawn from the centre
to the
circumference.
Radius of
Curvature. The radius of the osculatory circle at any point in a curve. See
Osculatory
Circle.
Raffle Leaf. A leaf in ornamental foliage formed of small indentations at the edge.
The acanthus leaf is so called.
Rafters.
(Quasi, Roof-trees.) The inclined timbers of a roof, whose edges are in the same
plane which is parallel to the covering.
Rag Slate. A slate obtained from Wales, and sold by the ton, wliich will cover about
one square and a half of roofing.
Rail. (Ger. Riegel.) A term applied in various ways, but more particularly to those
pieces of timber or wood lying horizontally, whether between the panels of wainscoting,
or of doors, or under or over the compartments of balustrades, &c. ; to pieces, in framing,
tliat lie from post to post in fences; in short, to all pieces lying in a horizontal dii-ec-
tion which
separate one compartment from another.
Rainfall.
To
calculate the quantity of water that will accumulate over a given area,
multiply the inches of rainfall by 2,323,200, which will equal the cube feet per square
mile. If by 14^,
it will equal millions of gallons per acre, If by 3,630, it will equal
cube feet
per acre.
(Molesuorth.)
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