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An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations (1883)

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, is a pigmentprepared by burning vine-twigs in close vessels.Mixed with ivhite lead it yields very fine silverygreys. (See also Black Pigments.) Blue Pigments. Minerals:— see Ultramarine,Cobalt, Blue Verditer. Vegetable:—Indigo.Animal :—Prussian blue. (See Carbonate ofCopper, Intense Blue.) Blue… … Figs. 89, 90. Boars. Gallic ensigns.Boclerus, Med. Lat. A buckler 14th century. The word is derived from the GermanBock, a goat. Compare ^Gis. Bodkin, Saxon. A dagger, a hair-pin, ablunt flat needle. With bodkins was Caesar JuliusMurdred at Rome, of Brutus, Cassius. ( The Serpent 0/Division, 1590.)…

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