In anc. fortifications, having pierced parapets or galleries projecting from the faces of the walls, from which pitch and offensive missiles might be thrown upon the besiegers below.
Massive gates and crumbling machicolated walls command a green plain, where immense waringen- trees, clipped into the semblance of evergreen umbrellas, display the Eastern symbol of sovereignty. Emily Richings in "Through the Malay Archipelago".
Massive gates and crumbling machicolated walls command a green plain, where immense waringen- trees, clipped into the semblance of evergreen umbrellas, display the Eastern symbol of sovereignty.
A bow or arch formed in the heavens, consisting of many beautiful and brilliant colours, which are produced by the refraction and reflection of rays of light falling on watery particles in the part of the heavens opposite to the sun. ...