. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. ), on the circum-ference of the drum, through whichthe water entered, as the wheel wasworked round by the labourers uponit, and fell upon boards {tabulce),radiating in the interior of the wheelfrom its circumference to the centreof the axle. This was formed out ofa hollow cylinder, and had likewisea number of
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. ), on the circum-ference of the drum, through whichthe water entered, as the wheel wasworked round by the labourers uponit, and fell upon boards {tabulce),radiating in the interior of the wheelfrom its circumference to the centreof the axle. This was formed out ofa hollow cylinder, and had likewisea number of cavities {columbaria) inits circumference, through which thewater penetrated the cylinder, andwas thence discharged from its ex-tremity into the receiving trough{labrum ligneum) and the channel (ca-nalis) which conducted it throughthe land. Lastly, when the waterto be raised was situated at a greatdepth from the surface where thetympanum was placed, a double chain,furnished with buckets, like our chainpumps, was attached to the axle, sothat one set were let down and theother drawn up by the revolutions ofthe machine, each bucket, as it turnedover the centre, emptying itself into areceiver constructed for the purpose. 7. A flat and naked triangularface, marked a in the annexed ex-. ample, included within the converg-ing and horizontal cornices whichterminate the gable end of a building(Vitruv. iii. 5. 12. and 13.) ; so termed4 x 706 TYROPATINA. UMBILICUS. from its resemblance to the skinstrained over a tambourine or adrum-head. 8. The panel of a door ( 6. 4. and 5.) ; so termed from asimilar resemblance to the last men-tioned. See Janua. 9. A large flat salver, or plate withraised margins, like a H. N, xxxiii. 52. TYROPATINA. A large flatcake made of cheese and honey(Apic. vii. 11.); a spurious word,from the Greek, rupos, cheese, andthe Latin patina. TYROTARICHUS. A dishcomposed of salted fish (Greek rdpi-%os), cheese (Greek rvpos), and hardeggs, seas
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