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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
andle on which the blows of the mallet are delivered. Frank′ing. （Joinery.) The notching out a portion of a sash-bar for the passage of the transverse bar, to make a miter-joint. Frap′ping. 1. (Nautical.) a. The binding together of the several ropes of a tackle at a point between the blocks, so as to increase still farther the tension. b. Securing a ship in emergency by wrapping ropes around it, to prevent starting of the planks. They used helps, undergirding the ship. — Luke's account of Paul's voyage. 2. Bracing the cords of a drum by pulling them together. Free′board. （Shipwrighting.) So much of the vessel's side as is included between the plank-sheer and the water-line. Free-reed. Free-reed. （Music.) An elastic tongue, usually of brass, and playing in a long rectangular opening in a plate to which one end of it is riveted. The name free-reed is given to distinguish it from the reed which batters against the seat, as in the clarin
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
ens. The ordinary domestic fowl is a native of India, and is neither mentioned in the Old Testament nor depicted on the paintings of Egypt. It was known in Palestine at the Christian era, and is supposed to have been introduced by the Romans into the countries they subjugated; perhaps earlier by the Persians, but this does not clearly appear. They were common in Greece. The references to eggs in the Old Testament refer to those of wild birds, such as ostriches and partridges. That in Luke no doubt was the ordinary hen's egg. The word, in the singular or plural, occurs but twice in the Old Testament, five times in the New. The business of egg-hatching is conducted by the Copts, who carry it on in Upper and Lower Egypt and pay a license to the government. A building containing from 12 to 24 ovens is called a maamal, and its charge is 150,000 eggs. An official report for 1831 gives for Lower Egypt 105 of these establishments, using 19,000,000 eggs, of which 13,000,--000 prod
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
of Assyria and China lead the way so far as the history of this art is concerned, for the Egyptian system was not favorable to the existence of tiles, even in rainless Upper Egypt. While the bricks of Babylon were some burnt and some adobes, the bricks of Egypt were universally adobes, or merely sundried, and this does not suit a thin tile, however well it may answer for a thick brick. The references to tiles in Holy Writ are not infrequent. We read of tiles in Ezekiel and in the Gospel of Luke, where the sick man was let down through the tiles. Tiles were also common in Rome at that day. The art of glazing tiles came from China, and before the introduction west of this Chinese art, neither bricks, tiles, nor earthenware was glazed, but in cases where it was necessary to render their earthen vessels water-proof, they were daubed with pitch, wax, tallow, or other resistant. See pottery. The vitreous glazes passed from China to India, and spread from thence after the conquest