Términos

Úsese para abbozzo en el contexto de pintura francesa.

Espadas africanas con una manija colocada y una lámina muy fina, ampliandose a una forma oval grande en el extremo, llevado por los jefes de Benín en la corte real.

Family of trees and shrubs placed in four genera with about 490 species, found throughout the tropics and some also in temperate regions.

Artesanos franceses expertos en mobiliario de lujo; también ebanistas franceses especializados en mobiliario enchapado, originalmente con márfil.

Personas que producen tallas en marfil, originalmente por balleneros a bordo de barcos.

Instrumentos para la medición exacta de los puntos absolutos o diferenciales de ebullición de soluciones.

Edificio que aloja el lugar de reunión de la ekklesia o asamblea soberana de las ciudades de la antigua Grecia.

Districts under the jurisdiction of a church.

Body of laws that are derived from canon law and civil law, administered by ecclesiastical courts. Ecclesiastical laws govern the rules and doctrine of a specific church. Examples are the laws of the Anglican church.

Principalities for which genealogical inheritance has been replaced by succession of a religious office.

Phylum having members that are characterized by a hard, spiny covering or skin. Echinoderms have existed since the Lower Cambrian Period, and today comprise about extant 7,000 species that fall into five well-defined groups: Crinoidea (sea lilies and feather stars), Ophiuroidea (basket stars and brittle stars), Asteroidea (starfishes), Echinoidea (sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea biscuits), and Holothuroidea (sea cucumbers). In the 19th century, Echinodermata was recognized as a distinct group of animals that was occasionally associated with the cnidarians and selected other phyla in a division of the animal kingdom known as the Radiata, however the concept of the superphylum Radiata is no longer valid. Marine invertebrate animals of radially symmetrical structure, having a body wall stiffened by calcareous pieces that may protrude as spines, and tiny hydraulically-operated tube-feet.

Members of a class containing around 950 living species of marine invertebrates having a globular or discoid form, and a rigid shell composed of many calcareous plates, in some species covered with projecting spines.

Instrumento de teclado de cuerdas mencionado en textos del siglo XIV al XVI. No existe una descripción exacta de su construcción, pero la evidencia sugiere que era un tipo de clavicordio. Se dice que han visto como un órgano, pero sonaba por cuerdas.La primera referencia conocida es a partir de 1360, cuando Eduardo III de Inglaterra presentó uno hecho por Jehan Perrot a Juan de Francia. Las referencias al clavicordio comienzan a aparecer a mediados del siglo XIV; y como el clavicordio apareció sólo después de 1390, se supone que el uso del término "chekker 'indica una cadena golpeada, en lugar de instrumento de teclado de cuerdas punteado, a pesar de la documentación sigue siendo poco clara.

Class of marine invertebrates.

Formerly considered a separate phylum; now generally classified as an order of annelids. Contains primarily marine invertebrate sausage-shaped organisms, that have lost their segmentation, found in sand and mud of tropical and subtropical seas. A flattened extension of the head is curved along its lateral edges and sometimes shaped like a scoop or spoon to form a nonretractable anterior proboscis. Some respiration probably takes place across the body wall, but the hind gut is often utilized as a respiratory organ by drawing water through the anus.

Superficie grabada con agujas a una cara oblicua para obtener líneas onduladas, utilizadas por primera vez por el artista del siglo XVII Jacques Callot.