A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 449
adjudged excessive.In some states of the Lhiitcd States this takesprecedence of mortgage, in others it comes nextafter all mortgages. — K. S. LIERNE RIB. In Gothic vaulting, anysmall suliordinate rib inserted between themain ribs, more often as an ornament tlian forconstructive reasons. This… … 10 so -I LiERNE Rib: Plax of Vaulting; Nate ofLincoln- CiXHEDKAL. and the junction of two tierceron.s,—these latterbenig ribs springing from the piers between theogives and tlie arcs doubleaux or the arcs fornier-ets. Thus, in the diagram, AD, BC being theogives and 0 the point of crossing or apex…
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