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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 677 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 enclosed in a compartment . 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 . 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 . 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 . In See also:Norman See also:work these recesses are generally shallow, and more of the nature of arcades . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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, lilies, Tudor See also:roses, &c . 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 . This is generally called the linen See also:pattern . 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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