ARCADE

(,1'r.) In Architecture, a series of arches crowned with a roof or ceiling, with a walk oi thereunder. The piers of arcades may be decorated with columns, pilasters, niche;, and apertures of dtfTereni themselves are turned so with rock-worked and rith plain ru I stones or vou oirs, or with a moulded archivolt, springing from an impost or platband, and sometimes,— though that is not to be recommended, — from columns. The key. rally carved in the form of a cot sculptured with some device. Scamozzi made the siy.e ol his piers leas, and varied his Imposts and archivolts in proportion to the delicacy of the orders he employed, bui made bis piers always of the same proportion. AKCVM M ftat. a secret.) A term often applied to lions by the old philosophers. i red oxide of mercury, obtained by the Lrcanom corallanum; sulplnite of [s. 85]