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… … but among the moderns it designates a steeplewhich diminishes as it ascends either pyramidallyor conically. Sphinx. A figure of a monster with the headand breasts of a woman, the wings of a bird, theclaws of a lion, and the rest of the body like a dog:we find it most frequently occurring amongst the
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