A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 354
hough the artistic conception may l)ethought rather to include the whole nature ofeach. In Egyjitian antiquity, the human-headed spliin.x is always male; and of thisnature is the Crcat S|ihiux, which is one of thevery earliest of existing monuments. It isnear the great pyramids of Gizeh, partly… … SPINTHAROS forming a <^>uirk. In each sense ob.solcscent.Also S]iccr, Sper; called also Enterclose. SPIGOT. A jilug to close the aperture of afaucet and control the flow of liquid. The.spigot itself may be perfoiated for the passageof the licjuid. A mere perforated cork or stop-I)er fitted…
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