st Steps toGeometry, Decorators Assistant, page 14,ante.) Arch, an aperture formed of bricks orstones of a wedge-like tendency, by which it isadapted to resist perpendicular and lateralpressure, so as to support the edifice built overit. An opening in a bridge through or imderwhich the water or… … 2. Semicircular.
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