See also:PANEL (O. Fr. panel, mod. panneau, piece of See also:cloth, from Med. See also:Lat. pannellus, diminutive of pannus, cloth)
, a piece of See also:cloth, slip of See also:parchment, or portion of a See also:surface of See also:wood or See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone enclosed in a compartment
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In the first sense the word survives in the use of " See also:panel " or " paneel " for the cloth-stuffed lining of a See also:saddle
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From the slip of parchment' on which the See also:list of jurymen is See also:drawn up by the See also:sheriff, " panel " in See also:English See also:law is applied to a See also:jury, who are thus said to be " empanelled." In Scots law the word is used of the See also:indictment, and of the See also:person or persons named in the indictment; " panel " is thus the See also:equivalent of the English " prisoner at the See also:bar." In See also:building and See also:architecture (Fr. panneau; Ital. quadretto, formello; Ger
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Feld) " panel " is properly used of the piece of wood framed within the See also:stiles and rails of a See also:door, filling up the See also:aperture; but it is often applied both to the whole square See also:frame and the sinking itself, and also to the ranges of sunken compartments in cornices, See also:corbel tables, groined vaults, ceilings, &c
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In See also:Norman See also:work these recesses are generally shallow, and more of the nature of arcades
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In See also:Early English work the square panels are ornamented with quatrefoils, cusped circles, &c., and the larger panels are often deeply recessed, and See also:form niches with See also:trefoil heads and sometimes canopies
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In the Decorated See also:style the cusping and other enrichments of panels become more elaborate, and they are often filled with See also:shields, foliages, and sometimes figures
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Towards the end of this See also:period the walls of important buildings were often entirely covered with See also:long or square panels, tht former frequently forming niches with statues
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The use of panels in this way became very See also:common in Perpendicular work, the See also:wall frequently being entirely covered with long, See also:short and square panels, which latter are frequently richly cusped, and filled with every See also:species of See also:ornament, as shields, bosses of foliage, See also:- PORTCULLIS (from the Fr. Porte-coulisse, porte, a gate, Lat. porta, and coulisse, a groove, used adjectivally for " sliding," from couler, to slide or glide, Lat. colare; the Fr. equivalents are herse, a harrow, and coulisse; Ger. Fallgatter; Ital. saraci
portcullis, lilies, Tudor See also:roses, &c
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Wooden panellings very much resembled those of stone, except in the Tudor period, when the panels were enriched by a varied See also:design, imitating the plaits of a piece of See also:linen or a napkin folded in a See also:great number of parallel lines
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This is generally called the linen See also:pattern
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Wooden ceilings, which are very common, are composed of thin See also:oak boards nailed to the rafters, collars, &c., and divided into panels by oak See also:mouldings fixed on them, with carved bosses at the intersections
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