hat are used in play.
_Dentils_, or Teeth, is a Member of the _Jonick_ Cornice,
which is square, and cut out at convenient distances,
which gives it the form of a Set or Gang of Teeth.
_Diastyle_, from [Greek: dia] and [Greek: stylos]: _Columna_
is a sort of Edifice where the Pillars are distanced one
from another the breadth of 3 Diameters of the Pillar.
_Diptere_, from [Greek: dis] and [Greek: pteron]: _Ala_
signifies that which has a double Isle or Wing; the
Ancients called so the Temples, which were surrounded
with two Ranges of Pillars, for there two _Ranges_ made
two _Portico's_, which they called _Wings_, we _Isles_,
from the French word _Ailes_, which signifies _Wings_,
because as Wings are on the sides of Birds, so these of
Edifices.
E
_Echinus_, from [Greek: apo tou echinou] a _Hedg-hog_; it is
a Member of Architecture, which we call a
_Quarter-round_; it has its name from the roughness of
its Carving, resembling the prickly Rhind of the Chesnut,
and not unlike the Hedg-hog; it's commonly next to the
_Abacus_, and carved with Ovals and Darts, sometimes
called Eggs and Anchors, because these pretended Chesnuts
are cut in an Oval form.
_Entablature_ signifies properly the Flooring or Lofting
with Boards; it comes from the Latin word _Tabulatum_. In
Architecture it's that part which is composed of the
_Architrave_, _Frise_, and _Cornice_, for in effect this
part is the extream part of the Flooring, which is
supported by Pillars, or by a Wall if it have no Pillars.
_Eye_ is the middle of the _Jonick_ Volute, which is cut in
the form of a little Rose.
_Eurythmie_, from [Greek: eu] _bene_, and [Greek: arithmos]
_numera_: it signifies Proportion; it's taken in its
general signification in _Architecture_; for in its
particular signification it signifies the true measure
that is observed in Dancing after Musick.
_Eustyle_, from [Greek: _eu_] _bene_, and [Greek: stylos] a
_Pillar_; its the Order where Pillars are rightly
placed, the Intercolumniations being two Diameters and a
quarter.
F
_Face_ is a Member of Architecture, which has a great
Breadth and a small Projecture; it's in _Architraves_.
_Filet_ is a little square streight Member.
_Fresco_, and to paint in _Fresco_ or _Freth_, is an Italian
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