Word Meanings - HYPERTHYRION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That part of the architrave which is over a door or window.

Related words: (words related to HYPERTHYRION)

• ARCHITRAVED
  Furnished with an architrave. Cowper.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• WINDOW
  The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening. 3. A figure formed of lines crossing each other. Till he has windows on his bread and butter. King. French window , a casement window in two folds,
• WINDOWY
  Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window. Donne.
• WINDOWPANE
  See B
• ARCHITRAVE
  The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column. The group of moldings, or other architectural member, above and on both sides of a door or other opening,
• WINDOWLESS
  Destitute of a window. Carlyle.
• WINDOWED
  Having windows or openings. "Looped and windowed raggedness." Shak.
• DORMER; DORMER WINDOW
  A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.
• BAY WINDOW
  A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window.