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Now 24869 at first is 24869 shillingsat £ is ... 6217 3

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1554 6 3

and $ or $ of a yard is 0 6^

1554 6 9£

Therefore the whole expense will be £1554 6s. 9^<h ^ e .Brickwork and Mensuration , where yard - measure 13employed.

Yard, an enclosed court or area. .

YELLOW, (from the Saxon, yealewe,') a colour like thaof gold. Yellows are of considerable variety, as yellow ochre,orpiment, gamboge, and many others, too well knownrequire description.

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ZACCO, or Zaccho, (Italian,) the lowest part of a column,or pedestal.

ZAX, an instrument used for cutting slates.

ZETA, or Zeticula, (from the Greek,) a small with-drawing chamber, with pipes conveyed along in the walls toreceive from below either the cool air or the heat of warmwater ; also, a stove-room. The term is sometimes extendedto signify a parlour, or even a dining-room.

ZIGZAG MOULDING, a moulding common in Normanbuildings. See Norman Architecture.

ZINC , a bluish-white metal, which tarnishes but slowlywhen exposed to the air ; and on this account is much usedin external works, such as roofs, fences, &c.

ZOCCO, or Zocle , a low square member, serving to sup-port a column instead of a pedestal.

A continued zocle is that on which an edifice is raised.

ZOPHORUS , (from (woe, living, or (wav, an animal, andtyepw, to bring,) the frieze, or broad member which separatesthe cornice and architrave. It was so called by the Greeks,because they adorned it with representations of animals.

The ancients had no fixed proportion of the order for theheight of the zophorus. However, in the same order, thoughthe friezes are to be found of different heights in differentexamples, the variation is not very great.

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When the zophorus was required to be ornamented,^*®height was generally enlarged in order to make room forornaments. This, however, was not the case withGrecian Doric , as this extension would have necessa /destroyed the proportion of the triglyphs, and consequenthat of the metopes, or spaces between them. The I uorder did not admit of any ornaments, and therefore ^zophorus, or frieze, was always plain. The Doric , togrand, was extremely elegant, and the metopes were B ^rally ornamented with sculpture, as in the Parthenon temple of Theseus at Athens . The zophorus of the iand Corinthian orders was not interrupted by any me _of the order, as in the Doric , but the ornaments were

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quently continued throughout the whole extent, inmore processions. In the Doric order also, within too rnaos, the triglyphs were always omitted, and in this ca ? e an dfrieze, or zophorus, was adorned, equally with the I° nlC j> ttI -Corintliian, as may be seen within the pronaos of the jthenon, and that of the temple of Theseus , already re eto. See Frieze . „ ve

ZOPHORIC COLUMN, any pillar supporting the oof an animal. ^

ZOTHECA, a small room or alcove, which naigadded to, or separated from, the room to which it adjoi ne

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