. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations . Santa Maria delle Grazie in thatcity. (See Reticella.) (Fig. 460.) Miliarium, R. (i) A tall narrow coppervessel employed in baths for heating thewater. (2) The column of an olive-press {tra-petuDi), which rose from the centre of the mortar{inorlariitni). Military Architecture. The science of build-ing
. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations . Santa Maria delle Grazie in thatcity. (See Reticella.) (Fig. 460.) Miliarium, R. (i) A tall narrow coppervessel employed in baths for heating thewater. (2) The column of an olive-press {tra-petuDi), which rose from the centre of the mortar{inorlariitni). Military Architecture. The science of build-ing fortresses and fortifying town walls, &c.[See VioUet le Due, ■ Essai siir ait Moyen A^i^e.] Milled Money, with gi-ooved edges, was firstcoined in this country in 1561. Millefiori. Mosaic glass. (See Glass.)Milliarium, R. {inille, a thousand, sc. paces).A column placed at intervals of a mile (1618Ihiglish yards) along a Roman road to indicatethe distance. (Fig. 461.) It was also called/ aureum was the name given to thegolden mile-stone erected by Augustus in thelorum, where the principal roads of the Empireterminated. A stone, called the London Stone, in Cannon Street, , is supposed tohave markeil the eentre of the Roman roads Fig. 461. Roman Mile-stone at Nic-sur-Aisne inFrance. Mill-rind. Fer-de-Moline, Her. The ironfixed to tlie centre of a millstone. Millstone-grit. The name of a good build-ing stone, plentiful in the north of England. Itis supposed to be formed by a re-aggregation ofthe disintegrated materials of granite. (Seethe Pitildcr, vol. ix. 639.) Millus, R. (See Melium.) Mimbar, Arabic. A pulpit in a finely-carved mimbar is in the South Ken-sington Museum. Minah, Minar, Ilind. A tower or Siirkh Alinar and Minar Cliakri, amongthe topes at Cabul, are almost the only pillarsexisting in India. They are generally ascribedto Alexander the Great, but are probablyBuddhist monuments of the 3rd or
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