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• GUTTER (O. Fr. goutiere, mod. gouttiere, from Lat. gutta, drop)

GUTTER (O. Fr. goutiere, mod. gouttiere, from See also:

• LAT

Lat. See also:

• GUTTA (Latin for " drop ")

gutta, drop)  , in See also:

• ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, a See also:

• HORIZONTAL

horizontal channel or trough contrived to carry away the See also:

• WATER

water from a See also:

• FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat or sloping roof to its See also:

• DISCHARGE (adapted from the O. Fr. discharge, modern decharge, from a med. Lat. discargare, to unload, dis- and earn care, to load, cf. " charge ")

discharge down a See also:

• VERTICAL (from Lat. vertex, highest point)

vertical See also:

• PIPE

pipe or through a spout or See also:

• GARGOYLE, or GURGOYLE (from the Fr. gargouille, originally the throat or gullet, cf. Lat. gurgulio, gula, and similar words derived from root gar, to swallow, the word representing the gurgling sound of water; Ital. doccia di grande; Ger. Ausguss)

gargoyle; more specifically, but loosely, the similar channel at the See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of a See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

street, below the See also:

• PAVEMENT (Lat. pavimentu;n, a floor beaten or rammed hard, from pavire, to beat)

pavement . In See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek and See also:

• ROMAN

Roman temples the cymatium of the See also:

• CORNICE (Fr. corniche, Ital. cornice)

cornice was the See also:

• GUTTER (O. Fr. goutiere, mod. gouttiere, from Lat. gutta, drop)

gutter, and the water was discharged through the mouths of lions, whose heads were carved on the same . Sometimes the cymatium was not carried along the flanks of a See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple, in which See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case the See also:

• RAIN (O.E. regn; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Regen, Swed. and Dan. regn; it has been connected with Lat. rigare, to wet, Gr. 13pixeav)

rain See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell off the See also:

• LOWER

lower edge of the roof tiles . In See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval See also:

• WORK

work the gutter rested partly on the See also:

• TOP (cf. Dan. top, Ger. Topf, also meaning pot)

top of the See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall and partly on See also:

• CORBEL (Lat. corbellus, a diminutive of corvus, a raven, on account of the beak-like appearance; Ital. mensola, Fr. corbeau, cul-de-lampe, Ger. Kragstein)

corbel tables, and the water was discharged through gargoyles . Sometimes, however, a See also:

• PARAPET (Ital. parapetto, Fr. parapet, from para, imperative of Ital. porare, to cover, defend, and petto, breast, Lat. pectus; the German word is Brustwehr)

parapet or pierced See also:

• BALUSTRADE

balustrade was carried on the corbel table enclosing the gutter . In buildings of a more See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary class the parapet is only a continuation of the wall below, and the gutter is set back and carried in a trough resting on the lower end of the roof timbers . The safest course is to have an See also:

• EAVES (not a plural form as is sometimes supposed, but singular; O. Eng. efes, in Mid. High Ger. obse, Gothic ubizwa, a porch; connected with " over ")

eaves gutter which projects more or less in front of the wall and is secured to and carried by the rafters of the roof . In See also:

• RENAISSANCE, THE

Renaissance architecture-generally the pierced balustrade of the See also:

• GOTHIC

Gothic and transition work was replaced by a balustrade with vertical balusters . In See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France a See also:

• COMPROMISE (pronounced compromize; through Fr. from Lat. compromittere)

compromise was effected, whereby instead of the horizontal See also:

• COPING (from " cope," Lat. capa)

coping of the ordinary balustrade a richly carved cresting was employed, of which the earliest example is in the first See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court of the Louvre by See also:

• PIERRE

Pierre Lescot . This exists throughout the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French Renaissance, and it is one of its See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief characteristic features .