Word Meanings - TRACERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ornamental work with rambled lines. Especially: -- (a) The decorative head of a Gothic window. Note: Window tracery is of two sorts, plate tracery and bar tracery. Plate tracery, common in Italy, consists of a series of ornamental patterns cut through a flat plate of stone. Bar tracery is a decorative pattern formed by the curves and intersections of the molded bars of the mullions. Window tracery is imitated in many decorative objects, as panels of wood or metal either pierced or in relief. See also Stump tracery under Stump, and Fan tracery under Fan. (b) A similar decoration in some styles of vaulting, the ribs of the vault giving off the minor bars of which the tracery is composed.

• Formicaroid
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridae or ant thrushes.
• Underwrite
  To write under something else; to subscribe.
• Plateful
  Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
• Underwent
  of Undergo
• Understairs
  The basement or cellar.
• Formularize
  To reduce to a forula; to formulate.
• Windowpane
  See Pane, n., (3) b.
• Similar
  Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like.
• Underhand
  Secret; clandestine; hence, mean; unfair; fraudulent.
• Understroke
  To underline or underscore.
• MOLDINGMOULDING
  A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface. Moldings vary greatly in pattern, and are generally used in groups, the different members of each group projecting or
• Stonecutter
  One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.
• Underlaborer
  An assistant or subordinate laborer.
• Undertone
  A low or subdued tone or utterance; a tone less loud than usual.
• Imitatrix
  An imitatress.
• UNDERARM
  Done (as bowling) with the arm not raised above the elbow, that is, not swung far out from the body; underhand. Cf. Over-arm and Round-Arm.
• Stonework
  Work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone.
• Undermasted
  Having masts smaller than the usual dimension; -- said of vessels.
• Metallicly
  In a metallic manner; by metallic means.

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