, a roof shaped similarly to abell. Bistre (in painting), a composition made ofthe most glossy and highest burnt soot pul-verised and passed through a fine sieve, thenbaked in a little gum water and made intocakes; or it is the burnt oil extracted from thesoot of wood. It is of a brown… … Bow, that part of a building which projectsfrom a straight wall, most commonly of theform of a segment of a cylinder, though some-times it is built on a plan consisting of threesides. In the first, the plan is the arc of acircle; and in the second, it is two externalobtuse angles, formed by the two…
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