cture.

GARTH, the central space round which a cloister is
carried.

GIRDER, a beam.

GROUTED, said of masonry or brickwork, treated with
liquid mortar to fill up all crevices and interstices.

GUTTAE, small pendent features in Greek and Roman Doric
cornices, resembling rows of wooden pegs.

HEXASTYLE, of six columns.

HONEYSUCKLE ORNAMENT, a decoration constantly introduced
into Assyrian and Greek architecture, founded upon the
flower of the honeysuckle.

HORSE-SHOE ARCH, an arch more than a semicircle, and so
wider above than at its springing.

HYPOSTYLE, literally "under columns," but used to mean
filled by columns.

IMPLUVIUM, the space into which the rain fell in the
centre of the atrium of a Roman house.

INSULA, a block of building surrounded on all sides by
streets, literally an island.

INTERCOLUMNIATION, the space between two columns.

KEYED, secured closely by interlocking.

KIBLA, the most sacred part of a Mohammedan mosque.

LATS, in Indian architecture, Buddhist inscribed
pillars.

MAMMISI, small Egyptian temples.

MASTABA, the most usual form of Egyptian tomb.

MAUSOLEUM, a magnificent sepulchral monument or tomb.
From the tomb erected to Mausolus, by his wife
Artemisia, at Halicarnassus, 379 B.C.

METOPES, literally faces, the square spaces between
triglyphs in Doric architecture; occasionally applied to
the sculptures fitted into these spaces.

MINARET, a slender lofty tower, a usual appendage of a
Mohammedan mosque.

MONOLITH, of one stone.

MORTISE, a hollow in a stone or timber to receive a
corresponding projection.

MOSQUE, a Mohammedan place of worship.

MUTULE, a feature in a Classic Doric cornice, somewhat
resembling the end of a timber beam.

NARTHEX, in an early Christian church, the space next
the entrance.

OBELISK, a tapering stone pillar, a feature of Egyptian
architecture.

OPUS ALEXANDRINUM, the mosaic work used for floors in
Byzantine and Romanesque churches.

OVOLO, a moulding, the profile of which resembles the
outline of an egg, used in Classic architecture.

PENDENTIVE, a feature in Byzantine and other domed
buildings, employed to enable a circular dome to stand
over a square space.

PERISTYLAR, or PERIPTERAL, with col