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INVENTORY OF MONUMENTS IN EAST LOTHIAN.

Console.-An ornamental bracket of stone or wood.
Cotice.-A narrow border borne on each side of a bend, pale, fess or chevron (Heraldry).
Corbel.-A projecting stone, usually moulded, to support a superincumbent weight.
Coudière.-Plate armour for the elbow.
Counterscarp.-The counter or opposite slope to the scarp or inner face of a ditch.
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Coved
Couped.-See under Erased.
Credence.-A side table or shelf for the Eucharistic elements before consecration.
Crenellated.-Battlemented ; having a parapet of alternate solids (merlons) and openings (crenelles
or kernels).
Cross :
(1) Cross botonny or Cross crosletted.-A cross with arms terminating in trefoils or triple
buds (Heraldry).
(2) Cross, patriarchal.-A cross with a triple cross-head.
(3) Cross-paty (croiz patee).-Strictly a cross with its arms terminating directly in a form
resembling fleurs-de-lys ; usually a cross with expanding arms cut square at the end,
which is more exactly described as a cross-formy (Heraldry).
Cruets.-The vessels used to hold the wine and water before mixing for the Eucharist.
Curtain or Curtain-wall.-A high enclosing wall.
Cusps.-The projecting points between the small arcs or " foils " in Gothic tracery, arches etc.
Debruised.-The term employed in heraldry when a bend, fess or other ordinary is placed across
an animal or other charge, which is then said to be debruised by the ordinary.
Drum-tower.-A hemispherical tower.
Enceinte.-High enclosing wall : often applied to space enclosed.
Engrailed.-Edged with a series of concave curves (Heraldry).
Entablature.-The superposed parts directly resting on pillars or columns and composed of architrave,
frieze and cornice.
Epauliere.-Plate armour for the shoulder.
Eradicated.-Torn up by the roots.
Erased.-Ragged, as if torn off, as distinct from couped or cut even (Heraldry).
Escutcheon or Inescutcheon.-A small shield usually in the centre of the large one (Heraldry).
Eye.-A small sinking or perforation in tracery.
Fess.-A band across the centre of a shield (Heraldry).
Fibula.-A clasp, buckle, or brooch.
Foil (trefoil, quaterfoil or quatrefoil, cinquefoil &c.).-A leaf-shaped curve (of three, four, five &c.
arcs) formed by the cusping in an opening or panel.
Fosse.-A ditch ; used for the oblong hole or pit crossed by a drawbridge in front of a castle
doorway flanked by towers.
Fraises.-Strawberry flowers (Heraldry).
Garb.-A wheat sheaf (Heraldry).
Garderobe.-Mediaeval sanitary provision.
Gargoyle.-A stone gutter or spout, often wrought as a grotesque.
Groined.-Having an angular curve formed by the intersection of two simple vaults.
Guilloche.-An ornament consisting of two or more intertwinning wavy bands.
Halfit.-In joinery, the sides of a fitment.
Hassue col.-A collar of armour for the neck.
Impaled.-Having two coats of arms side by side on one shield divided down the middle ; usually
that of the husband impaled with that of the wife (Heraldry).
Impost.-The member of a pillar or pier from which the arch springs. Discontinuous Impost.-
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Where the arch mouldings simply die out in the splayed jambs.
Intrados.-The interior and lower line or curve of an arch.
Jamb, jam (wing).-A wing of a building.
Jambards.-Plate armour for the legs.
Jougs.-An iron collar with chain by which delinquents were secured to a post or building.
Label.-(1) A narrow band on the chief of a shield from which hang three or five " points "
at right angles-usually borne as a " difference " or mark of cadency (Heraldry). (2) A
hood-moulding (q.v.).
Lancet.-A tall narrow window with a pointed-arch head.

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