linen-prover

(lin’en-pré’vér), n. A small mi- eroscope used in commerce for counting the threads in linen fabrics, and thus determining their finene . linen-scroll (lin’en-skr6l),. In arch., a form of curved ornament employed to fill panels: so called from its resemblance to the convolutions of a folded napkin. It belongs peculiarly to the latter part of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. The figure shows the scroll from a panel in Layer Marney Hail, in the county of E ex, England. Linen-scroll.