It becomes a
_Basement_ when at the bottom of it, and beneath this the wall is
generally thicker.
_Battlement_.--It may be indented or plain; sunk, panelled, or pierced.
_Crockets_.--Small bunches of foliage, ornamenting canopies and
pinnacles.
_Canopies_.--Adorned drip-stones.--_Vide_ Dripstone.
_Crypts_.--Vaulted chapels under some large churches, and a few small
ones.
_Crisps_.--Small arches; sometimes _double-feathered_, and according to
the number of them in immediate connexion; they are termed _tre_-foils,
_quatre_-foils, _cinque_-foils, &c.
_Dripstone_.--The tablet running round doors and windows.
_Featherings_ or _Foliations_.--Parts of tracery ornamented with small
arches and points, are termed _Feathered_, or _Foliated_.
_Finials_.--Large crockets surmounting canopies and pinnacles. This term
is frequently applied to the whole pinnacle.
_Machicolations_.--Projecting battlements, with intervals for
discharging missiles on the heads of assailants.
_Mullions_.--By these, windows are divided into lights.
_Parapet_.--When walls are crowned with a parapet, it is straight at the
top.
_Pinnacle_.--A small spire, generally four-sided, and placed on the top
of buttresses, &c., both exterior and interior.
_Piers_.--Spaces in the interior of a building between the arches.
_Rood Loft_.--In ancient churches, not collegiate, a screen between the
nave and chancel was so called, which had on the top of it a large
projection, whereon were placed certain images, especially those which
composed the rood.
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