See also:

• QUOINS (an old variant spelling of " coin," from Lat. cuneus, a wedge)

QUOINS (an old variant spelling of " See also:

• COIN
• COIN (older forms of the word are coyne, quoin and coign, all derived through the O. Fr. coing, and cuigne from Lat. cuneus, a wedge)

coin," from See also:

• LAT

Lat. See also:

• CUNEUS (Latin for " wedge "; plural, cunei)

cuneus, a See also:

• WEDGE (O. Eng. wecg, a mass of metal, cognate with Dutch wig, wigge, Dan. vaegge, &c.; in Lith. the cognate form outside Teut. is found in wagis, a peg, spigot; there is no connexion with " weigh," " weight," which must be referred to the root wegh, to li

wedge)  , in See also:

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

architecture, the See also:

• TERM

term for the See also:

• EXTERNAL

external See also:

• ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle of a See also:

• BUILDING

building, generally applied to the See also:

• ASHLAR

ashlar See also:

• MASONRY

masonry employed to stop the See also:

• RUBBLE

rubble masonry or See also:

• BRICKWORK

brickwork 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 at the angles, as also of buttresses, doorways or projecting features . In Saxon See also:

• WORK

work the See also:

• QUOINS (an old variant spelling of " coin," from Lat. cuneus, a wedge)

quoins were built with large stones laid horizontally and vertically in alternate courses, technically known as " See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long and See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short " work . Sometimes, to give greater importance to the angles of towers, the quoin stones are rusticated, and this treatment is found extensively employed in See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German towns . At Eastbury See also:

• MANOR

Manor See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House in See also:

• ESSEX
• ESSEX, ARTHUR CAPEL
• ESSEX, EARLS OF
• ESSEX, KINGDOM OF
• ESSEX, ROBERT DEVEREUX
• ESSEX, ROBERT DEVEREUX, 2ND2 EARL OF (1566-1601)
• ESSEX, WALTER DEVEREUX, IST2 EARL OF (1541–1576)

Essex, built in See also:

• BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick, the quoins at the angles of the walls, See also:

• DOORWAY (corresponding to the Gr. Iran, Lat. porte)

doorway and windows were plastered in See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of stonework .