Glossary

1. A device for matching and properly connecting items, tubing, or devices (especially electric) which are of different size, operating […]

Said of animals or figures placed back to back in decorative sculpture.

A device used to hold a doorframe above the finished floor.

A try square the arm of which is at right angles to the handle; the position of the arm may be moved

In a church, a sound reflector behind and over a pulpit.

A monastery or convent; particularly the church thereof.

In the plane Cartesian coordinate system, the horizontal coordinate of a point on a plane; the x-coordinate, obtained by measuring the distance from