See also:

• SILL
• SILL (O.Eng. syl, Mid. E. sylle, selle; the word appears in Icel. syll, svill, Swed. syll, and Dan. syld, and in German, as Schwelle; Skeat refers to the Teutonic root swal-, swell, the word meaning the rise or swell formed by a beam at a threshold; the L
• SILL, EDWARD ROWLAND (1841-1887)

SILL (O.Eng. syl, See also:

• MID

Mid. E. sylle, selle; the word appears in Icel. syll, svill, Swed. syll, and See also:

• DAN

Dan. syld, and in See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German, as Schwelle; See also:

• SKEAT, WALTER WILLIAM (1835– )

Skeat refers to the See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root swal-, swell, the word meaning the rise or swell formed by a See also:

• BEAM
• BEAM (from the O. Eng. beam, cf. Ger. Baum, a tree, to which sense may be referred the use of " beam " as meaning the rood or crucifix, and the survival in certain names of trees, as horn-beam)

beam at a See also:

• THRESHOLD

threshold; the L  at. solea, from which comes Fr. seuil, gives Eng . " See also:

• SOLE (Solea)

sole," also sometimes used for " See also:

• SILL
• SILL (O.Eng. syl, Mid. E. sylle, selle; the word appears in Icel. syll, svill, Swed. syll, and Dan. syld, and in German, as Schwelle; Skeat refers to the Teutonic root swal-, swell, the word meaning the rise or swell formed by a beam at a threshold; the L
• SILL, EDWARD ROWLAND (1841-1887)

sill "), the See also:

• HORIZONTAL

horizontal See also:

• BASE

base of a See also:

• DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. Lat. fores or valvae; the English word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European stem as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)

door or window-See also:

• FRAME

frame . A technical distinction is made between the inner or wooden base of the window-frame and the 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 base on which it rests—the latter being called the sill of the window, and the former that of its frame . This See also:

• TERM

term is not restricted to the bases of apertures; the See also:

• LOWER

lower horizontal See also:

• PART

part of a framed See also:

• PARTITION

partition is called its sill .