A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 23
wood, iron,or of other material, although in one piece, assuming thesame form as the above. (Lat. Arms — a bow.) With whatever people trie arch may have originated, itis certain that the Romans were the first to bring it intogeneral use. The influence which the arch has had ineffecting changes in… … AitcH. The sides of an areli are termed its haunches or flanks,and the highest part the crown. i7 owing to it, for the arch gradually encroached upon theleading principle of Classical architecture, namely, thatthe horizontal lines should be dominant, until that prin-ciple was entirely abrogated,…
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