$H Clearness.
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Clearness.
A quality in Art which consists in arranging the jux=
ta-position
and contact of colours, tints, and tones, in the manner best calculated to
realize a good general harmony on a broad scale. † † See a pa= per on clearness by J. B. Pane, the emi= nent artist, in the Art Union for September, 1843. It forms one of a series on "The Nomenclature of Pictorial Art," all of which are of exceeding value as exponents of practical and theoretic views of an important kind, difficult in treatmen= t, but satisfactorily done here. (1855f1) |
$H Cleat.=
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Cleat. A small piece=
of wood
nailed on to the principal rafters of a roof in order to support the purlins or horizontal beams on which the common raf=
ters
rest. It is a kind of hammer beam in the shape of a wedge, and its purpos=
e is
to prevent the beams which support the rafters from slipping. Our
illustrations show the cleat =
in
section as well as in perspective. 2 ILLUS. cleat1, cleat2(1891a1) |
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$H =
Cleave.
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Cleav=
e. To cut or divide diamonds and crystals in paral=
lel
layers.(1891a1) |
$H Clechée.
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Clechée. Her.=
(See
UNDÉE.) A variety of the heraldic cross.(1883m1) |
$H Clef or Cliff. &n= bsp;
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Clef or Cliff. Music=
. A
figure indicating the pitch to be adopted for the key‑note of a pie=
ce
of music; an invention of the 13th century(1883m1) |
$H Clement, St.
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St. Clement was one =
of the
disciples of St. Paul and St. Peter, and he is said to have been the Bish=
op
of Rome for many years. He was banished by a prefect who governed |
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Clement,
‡ See ANCH=
OR. (1855f1) |
$H Cleopatra. Egypt
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Cleopatra. An
Egyptian lady, the daughter of Ammonius, and the wife of Soter, archon of=
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Cleopatra. The
name of several wives and daughters of different Ptolemies. The first
Cleopatra was a Syrian Princess, who married Ptolemy Epiphanes (V.).
Cleopatra II. seems to have enjoyed a co-regency with her brother-husband
Philometor. Indeed the six or seven queens of the name all seem to have h=
ad
almost equal power with their husbands. The great Cleopatra was the VIth =
or
VIIth, according to different historians. She has left evidence of her re=
ign
on the walls of the |
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Cleopatra B=
erenice.
A queen of |
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Cleopatra. =
Surnamed Tryphena. A queen o=
f |
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Cleopatra. A queen of |
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Cleopatra. A queen of Egypt, and daughter of Ptolemy Philomater, by whose orders she was forcibly married to her uncle and father-in-law, Ptolemy Physcon, on his repudiation of her mother. On the death of her husband she became co-sovereign with her son Ptolemy Soter I= I. B.C. 117, and then quarrelling with him drove him from the throne, and placed = her second son Alexander in his stead, who in return caused her to be put to = death about B.C. 89). (1876c1) |
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Cleopatra. A queen of |
$H Cleopatra Candace. Egypt
|
A Greco-Egyptian lady, the daughter of |
$H Clepsydra.
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Cleps=
ydra Gen. |
$H = Clerestory, Claire‑voie, <= span class=3DSpellE>Claire‑voire. Architecture
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Clerestory. (Arch.) The row of windows placed in the=
upper
story of the nave in Gothic churches. It rises clear above the roof of the
nave‑aisles. The term, however, was once applied generally to any r=
ow
of windows in a wall or building.(1891a1)=
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Claire‑voie ( Fig. 164. Clerestory and Triforiu=
m
in
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Clerestory. The upper row of windows in a church which appear above the roof of the nave, or the arches which support it. = (1855f1) |
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$H Cleystaffe.
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Cleystaffe. O.E. A p=
astoral
staff.(1883m1) |