ORCHESTRA

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In Architecture, that part in the interior of a ihealre situate immediately between the stage and the place a igned to the audience. In the Greek and Roman the: *re= it was the part appropriated to the chorus and its evo.jtlons, and was almost level with the stage. In the theatres (..'the moderns, it is the place appropriated to the musicians. The word is also applied to any erection for the performersln a concert. ORCHID ACE^E. (Orchis, one of the genera.) A natural order of Herbaceous Endogons, inhabiting all parts of [s. 870]