. 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 . round).A long string or ribbon attached to any kind ofhead-dress. Redoubt is a general name for nearly everykind of work in the class of field fortifications. Redshank, Scotch. A Highlander wearingbuskins of red-deer skin, with the hair out-wards. Reduction. In Art, a copy on a smallerscale. The work
. 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 . round).A long string or ribbon attached to any kind ofhead-dress. Redoubt is a general name for nearly everykind of work in the class of field fortifications. Redshank, Scotch. A Highlander wearingbuskins of red-deer skin, with the hair out-wards. Reduction. In Art, a copy on a smallerscale. The work is done mechanically by aprocess of subdivision of the original into seg-ments or squares. Reekie, Scotch. Smoky ; hence Auld Reekie,the city of Edinburgh. Reeking-hook, O. E. A pot-hook hung inthe chimney, to suspend vessels over an openfire. (See Galows.) Re-entering, in Engraving, is the sharpeningor deepening with a graver the lines insuffi-ciently bitten in by the acid. Refectory, Mod. {reficio, to refresh). A hallin which the monks of a monastery assembledto take their meals ; one of the most im-portant rooms of the establishment; it wasoften divided into two navesby a row of columnscalled the spine {spina), which received thespring of the vaultings forming the roof of Fig. 579. Regals or Portable Organ. 276 WORDS USED IN Reflected Lights thrown by an illuminatedsurface into the shadows opposed to it, modifythe Local Colour of every object that weobserve in nature, and should accordingly bemade to do so in painting. Seflexed, Reflected, Her. Curved and carriedbackwards. Refraction is the diversion of a ray of lightwhich occurs when it falls obliquely on the sur-face of a medium differing in density from thatthrough which it had previously moved. Thedifferently-coloured rays have different degreesof refrangibility. Refraction is the cause ofthe phenomena of the niirai;e, Fata Morgana,&c., and presents to us the light of the sunbefore his actual emergence abo
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