LOWBOY  , a small table with one or two rows of drawers, so called in contradistinction to the See also:

• TALLBOY (partly a translation and partly a corruption of the French hautbois)

tallboy, or See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double See also:

• CHEST (Gr. Kiarl, Lat. cista, O. Eng. cist, test, &c.)

chest of drawers . Both were favourite pieces of the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, both in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England and See also:

• AMERICA

America; the lowboy was most frequently used as a dressing-table, but sometimes as a See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side-table . It is usually made of See also:

• OAK (O. Eng., (lc)

oak, See also:

• WALNUT (Juglans)

walnut or See also:

• MAHOGANY

mahogany, with See also:

• BRASS
• BRASS (O. Eng. braes)

brass handles and escutcheons . The more elegant examples of the See also:

• CHIPPENDALE, THOMAS (d. 1979)

Chippendale See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period have cabriole legs, claw-and-See also:

• BALL (in Mid. Eng. bal; the word is probably cognate with " bale," Teutonic in origin, cf. also Lat. falls, and Gr. 7raXXa)
• BALL, JOHN (1585-1640)
• BALL, JOHN (1818-1889)
• BALL, JOHN (d. 1381)
• BALL, SIR ALEXANDER JOHN, BART
• BALL, THOMAS (1819- )

ball feet and carved knees, and are sometimes sculptured with the favourite See also:

• SHELL
• SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)

shell See also:

• MOTIVE (from Lat. movere, to move)

motive beneath the centre drawer .