or i chal cum (orikalkum)

Same as orichalc. oriel (ō'ri-el), n. [Formerly also orial; Oriel, Castle of Heidelberg, Baden. 4153 gold: see aureole, aureous, and cf. oriole.] A portico, rece , or small room forming a projection from a room or building, as a hall or chapel, in the form of a large bay or rece ed window, and often more richly furnished or more private than the rest of the room or building, formerly used as a boudoir, closet, and separate apartment for various purposes. It projects from the outer face of the wall, being in plan semi-hexagonal, semi-octagonal, or rectangular, etc., and is supported on brackets, corbels, or corbeling. When such a projecting feature rests upon the ground, or directly upon the foundation of the building, it is called a bay - window, or a bow - window. Also called oriel-window. Sure I am that small excursion out of gentlemen's halls in Dorcetshire (respect it East or West) is commonly called Fuller, Ch. Hist., VI. 285. an orial. At St. Alban's was an Oriel , or apartment for persons not so sick as to retire to the Infirmary. Fosbrooke , Brit. Monachism, xxxix. And thro' the topmost Oriels ' colored flame Two godlike faces gazed below. Tennyson , Palace of Art. All in an oriel on the summer side, Vine-clad, of Arthur's palace toward the stream They met. Tennyson, Lance lot and Elaine. A small church too strikes us, with its windows projecting like oriels , one of them indeed rising from the ground. E. A. Freeman , Venice, p. 49. oriencyt (ō'ri-en-si), n. [ Black and thorny plum tree is of the deepest oriency. Evelyn, III. iv. 12.