Definition of Archings

1. arching [n] - See also: arching

Lexicographical Neighbors of Archings

archimage
archimages
archimagi
archimagus
archimandrite
archimandrites
archimedes
archimime
archimimes
archimperialist
archimperialists
archin
archine
archines
arching
archings (current term)
archipallium
archipelagic
archipelago
archipelagoes
archipelagos
archiphonemic
archiptergyia
archipterygium
architect
architect's lien
architect's liens
architect's ruler
architected
architecting

Literary usage of Archings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Valladolid, Oviedo, Segovia, Zamora, Avila, & Zaragoza: An Historical by Albert Frederick Calvert (1908)
"... archings and ornamental courses of brick and plaster. The wall and towers preserve their battlements. The 'allure,' or rampart walk, is in parts so ..."

2. A History of Gothic Art in England by Edward Schröder Prior (1900)
"The original parts are all in evidence, and reproduced distinctly, whether the archings serve for door or window, for the gallery of a shrine, or simply for ..."

3. A History of Painting in Italy, Umbria, Florence and Siena, from the Second by Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1908)
"To the left of the Virgin and Child are St. John Evangelist and St. Donatus, to the right the Baptist and St. Matthew, in the spandrels of the archings ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1892)
"(d) In the typical Ammonite, there is a tertiary crimping of the suture line, ie, each of the archings of the line corresponding to the crenulations of ..."

5. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1892)
"each of the archings of the line corresponding to the crenulations of ... the tertiary archings of the Ammonite are again crenulated. forming a quaternary ..."

6. Rheims and the Battles for Its Possession by Pneu Michelin (Firm) (1919)
"The sculptures in the archings depict scenes from the Passion, ... These archings and gable were greatly damaged by the fires of September 19, 1914; ..."

7. Geological Biology: An Introduction to the Geological History of Organisms by Henry Shaler Williams (1895)
"... ie, each of the archings of the line corre- sponding to the crenulations of ... the tertiary archings of the Ammonite are again crenulated, ..."

8. People of Finland in Archaic Times: Being Sketches of Them Given in Kalevala by John Croumbie. Brown (1892)
"These the words of the magician : " All the archings are completed, And the frame is fitly finished ; Whence the hooks and pins for tuning, ..."

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