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Oriel :: Oriel (n.) A gallery for minstrels.

Piazza :: Piazza (n.) An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda..

Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850..

Countermine :: Countermine (n.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.

Pinacotheca :: Pinacotheca (n.) A picture gallery.

Eking :: Eking (v. t.) The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.

Brattice :: Brattice (n.) A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.

Loggia :: Loggia (n.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room..

Loft :: Loft (n.) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft..

Auget :: Auget (n.) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.

Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle..

Ambulatory :: Ambulatory (n.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building..

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery..

Balcony :: Balcony (n.) A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.

Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.

Deep :: Deep (superl.) Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep..

Rib :: Rib (n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.

Creep :: Creep (n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground..

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