QLOSSAEY.

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Sraestriclit foot
MaJta palm ....
Mantua brasso
Mantuan braccio = Brescia
Marseilles foot
Mechlin foot ....
Mentz foot ....
Milan decimal foot
...
Milan aliprand foot
.
Milanese braccio
Modena foot ....
Monaco foot ....
Montpelller pan ...
Moravian foot
....
Moravian ell -
Moscow foot - . . -
Monich foot . . - .
Naples palm ....
Naples canna
....
Niiremburg town foot
Nuremburg country foot
Nurembu
g
artillery foot
Nuremburg ell ...
Padua foot ....
Palermo foot . . . -
Paris foot ....
Paris met-e - - - .
Parma foot ....
Parmesan braccio -
Paviafoot ....
Placentia =Parma -
Prague foot - . . .
Prague ell - - - -
Proveuce = Mar:oilles.
Rhinland foot
....
Riga = Hamburgh
.
Roman palm
....
Roman foot - . - .
Roman deto, 1-inth foot
Roman oncia, l-12th foot
Roman palmo
....
Roman palmo di architettura
Roman canna di architettura
-
Roman staiolo
....
lioman canna dei mercanti (8 1
palmsj
I
English Feet.
91G H.
915
H.
1-521
H.
C.
8U H.
753
H.
9SS H.
855
H.
1-42G H.
1-725
C.
2-081
H.
771
H.
-777
H.
971
V.
2-594
V.
928
H,
947
H.
J
861
II.
I
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C.
6-aon C.
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907
H.
961
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2-166
V.
1-406
H.
747
If.
1^0C6 H.
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1-869
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2-242
C.
1-540
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(-987
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1-948
V.
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1-023
H.
11-030 Eytelwein.
733 IT.
9fi6
Folkes.
0604
F.
0805 F.
2515
F.
7325 F.
7^325
F.
4^212
F.
6 5365 V.
Roman braccio dei meroanti (4 p
palms)
)
Roman braccio di tessitor di
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tela
)
Roman braccio di arcliitettura
Rouen =Paris
....
Russian arschine ...
Russian verechok ( 1 -1 6th arsch.)
Russian foot = to the English.
Savoy = Chambery
.
Seville = Barcelona
...
Seville vara ....
Siena foot ....
SteUin foot - - .
Stockholm foot
Strasbourg town foot
Strasbourg couiitrv foot
-
Toledo=iladad
" -
Trent foot ....
Trieste ell for woollens -
Trieste ell for silk -
Tiuin foot ....
Turin ras
....
Turin trabuco
- - - .
T\rol foot ....
Tyrol ell
Valladolid foot
Venice foot ....
Venice braccio of silk
Venice ell ....
^enice braccio of cloth
.
Verona foot
....
Vicenza foot
....
Vienna foot - -
Vienna ell - - . -
Vienna post mile -
Vienne in Dauphin^ font
Ulm foot
Urbino foot
....
Utrecht foot
. . . .
Warsaw foot
. . . .
Wesel = Dordrecht . -
Zurich foot
....
English Feet.
2-7876
P.
2-856
C.
F.
2-561
C.
H.
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2-3625
C.
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14.58
2-760
1-239
1-224
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1-073
1
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967
1-201
2-220
2-107
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1-676
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1-681
1^958
10-085
1-096
2-639
908
1-137
1-140
1167
2-108
2-089
2-250
1-117
1 -186
I 1-036
i 1-037
2-557
24-888
1-058
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1-162
741
1-169
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Foot of the ErE Dirkctok. In perspective, that poiut in the directing line made bv a
vertical plane passing tlirougli the eye and the centre of tlie picture.
Foot op a vertical Line. In perspective, that point in the intersecting line -which is made
by a vertical plane passing througji the eye and the centre of the picture.
Foot Pace or Half Pace That part of a st^iircase -whereon, after the flight of a few
steps, a broad place is arrived at, on -which two or three paces may be taken before
coming to anotlier step. If it occur at the angle turns of the stairs, it is CJilled a
quarter pace.
Footins Beam. The name given, in some of the provinces, to the tie-beam of a
roof.
Footings of a Wall. The projecting courses at the base of a wall to spread it, and thus
give security to tlie wall.
FooT-STALi>.
Tlie base or plinth of a building. See Earth Table.
Force. In meclianics, the course of motion in a body wlien it begins to move, or when it
changes its direction from the course in which it was previously moving. "While ii body
remains in the same state, whetlier of rest, or of uniform and rectilinear motion, tlie
cause of its so remaining is in the nature of the body, wliieh principle has received the
name of inertia.
Forcer. In mechiinics, a solid piston applied to pumps for the purpose of producing a
constant stream, or of raising water to a greater hciglit than it can be raised by the
pressure of the atmosphere.
Fore Front. Tlie principal or entrance front of a building.
Fore
Plane. In carpentry and joinery, the first plane used after the saw or axe.
Foreshorten.
In perspective, the diminution whicli the representation of the side or
part of a body has, in one of its dinjensions, compared with the other, ocavsioned by
the obliquity of the corresponding side or part of the original body to the plane of
prcjection.
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