. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. as they may fit in. This last is more applicable to Gothic than to Italian architecture. See (Lat. Eudis, a rope.) The same as (Lat. Ruderatio.) A method of laying pavements, mentioned by Vitru- vius, and according to some, of building walls with rough pebbles and mortar. The mortar called statumcn by Vitruvius was made of lime and An instrument for measuring short lengths. Of rules there are variou
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. as they may fit in. This last is more applicable to Gothic than to Italian architecture. See (Lat. Eudis, a rope.) The same as (Lat. Ruderatio.) A method of laying pavements, mentioned by Vitru- vius, and according to some, of building walls with rough pebbles and mortar. The mortar called statumcn by Vitruvius was made of lime and An instrument for measuring short lengths. Of rules there are various sorts, each adapted to the class of artificers for whose use they are made. Thus, tliere are stone-cutters rules, masons rules, carpenters rules, sliding rules, parallel rules, &c. The eliding rule is, however, of more general use, as it solves by inspection a number of questions from the change of the position of the slider, and therefore of much importance to the less educated Architecture. A style of architecture suited for country places, and not strictly conforming to any rules but that, perhaps, of the GLOSSARY. 1353 RtrssiAN Ahchitecture. The ancient buildings are designed after the Byzantine schoolof art; the modern ones after the German, French, and Italian masters. EtJSSiAN Cross of the Greek Chnrch. See Cross. Rustic Order. A species of work where the faces of the stones are hatched or picked?with the point of a hammer. Rustic Quoins or Coins. The stones placed on the external angles of a building project-ing beyond the naked of the wall. The edges are bevelled, or more or less moulded, orthe margins recessed in a plane parallel to the face or plane of the wall. Rustic Work. A mode of building masonry wherein the faces of the stones are leftroiigh, the sides only being wrought smooth where the union of the stones takes was a method much practised at an early period, and re-introduced by Brunelleschiat the revival of the arts. Th
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