Skylight. Frames with one or two inclinedplanes of glass, placed in a roof to give light tothe looms or passages below, and looking to the sky. Spire. Among the ancients, this was the baseof a column, and sometimes the astragal or torus. most common species of roofing, which is formedby two… … tween walls or balustrades, with landing-place,&c. Steeple, (steopel, stypel, Sax.) An appendagegenerally erected at the west end of churches, tocontain the bells, and rising either in form of atower or of a spire. Skirting. The narrow boards which form aplinth round the margin of a floor. Slit…
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