terracel (teras)

[Early mod. E. also terras, tarras, tarra e; This is the tarra e where thy sweetheart tarries. Chapman , May-Day, iii. 3. List, list, they are come from hunting; stand by, close under this terras . B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, ii. 1. Terraces , flanked on either side by jutting masonry, cut clear vignettes of olive-hoary slopes, with cypre -shadowed farms in hollows of the hills. terræ filius as a fancy name, to ordinary streets or ranges of houses.-4. The flat roof of a house, as of Oriental and Spanish houses. - 5t. A balcony, or open gallery. There is a rowe of pretty little tar ra es or rayles betwixt every window. Coryat, Crudities, I. 218. As touching open galleries and terraces , they were devised by the Greekes, who were wont to cover their houses with such. Holland , tr. of Pliny, xxxvi. 25 6. In marble - working, a defective spot in marble, which, after being cleaned out, is filled with some artificial preparation. Also terra e. terracel (ter'ās), v. t.; pret. and pp. terraced, ppr. terracing. [ Methinks the grove of Baal I see In terraced stages mount up high. Dyer, To Aaron Hill.