A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 61
flowers,or a series of open carved work. The canopies of tombs arc frequentlyof the most gorgeous description, en-riched with a profusion of the mostminute ornament, which is sometimesso crowded together as to create anappearance of great confusion. Mostof our cathedrals and large churcheswill… … Cant, and Canted5 a term in commonuse among carpenters to express thecutting off the angle of a square. Anypart of a building on a polygonal planis also said to be canted, as a canted win-dow, or oriel, &e. Cantaliver, a kind of bracket,whether of stone, wood, or iron,used to support eaves,…
