. 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 . ; (2) a bronze needle ; (3) a probeemployed for garden purposes. (4) A sharp stakein a pitfall. It was also called graphiinii. Stimulus, R. {(jTiQw, to prick). A goad fordriving cattle. Stipple. Etched imitations of chalk drawingsof the human figure, called engravings in stipple,have a very soft effec
. 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 . ; (2) a bronze needle ; (3) a probeemployed for garden purposes. (4) A sharp stakein a pitfall. It was also called graphiinii. Stimulus, R. {(jTiQw, to prick). A goad fordriving cattle. Stipple. Etched imitations of chalk drawingsof the human figure, called engravings in stipple,have a very soft effect, but are inferior to en-graving. In this variety the whole subject isexecuted in dots without strokes on tiie etching-ground, and these dots are bitten in with aqua-fortis. The dots may be harmonized with alittle hammer, in which case the work is calledopus mallei. In the method known as mezzo-tinlo, a dark l>arl> or ground is raised uniformlyby means of a toothed tool ; and the designbeing traced, the light parts are scraped off fromthe plate by fitting instruments, according to theeffect required. (See Engkaving.) Stips, R. A small bronze coin, equal to the X 3o6 WORDS USED IN twelfth part of an as, or about a quarter of a far-thing ; it bore on the reverse the prow of a Fig. 632. Stola. Costume of a Roman , Gr. A form of sun-dial. (See ) Stockings were introduced into Englandwith knitting in 1501, when Queen Elizabethwas jircsented with a pair of black knit silkstockings by her tirewoman, and immediatelydiscontinued the cloth hose she had previouslyworn. The Scotch claim the invention of knit-ting, and a French company of stocking-knittersestablished at Paris in 1527 took for their patrcjnSt. Fiacre, who is said to have been the son of aKing of Scotland. (See Netherstocks.) Stola, R. (o-ToA^, lit. an equipment). The robe worn by Roman matrons; it consisted ofa wide tunic with long sleeves. It camedown to the ankles or feet, and w
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