The Japanese kites are made of tough paper pasted on a frame of bamboo sticks, and are usually of a rectangular shape.
On the rectangular kites are pictures of ancient heroes or beautiful women, dragons, horses, monsters of various kinds, the symbol of the sun, or huge Chinese characters.
Jain manuscripts had at first consisted of long rectangular strips made of palm-leaves on which the scriptures were written in heavy black letters.
A certain simplification of structure--each picture possessing one or more rectangular compartments--enhances this effect while the addition of swirling trees studded with flowers imbues each wild encounter with a surging vegetative rhythm.
It was a pity he had let his tea grow cold, and had left his plate of thick, rectangular bread-and-butter untouched.
All that ever found their way into the house were those unappropriated blessings, those emotionlessrectangular travesties of bread called "tin loaves.
The hour was about six in the evening, and three- fourths of the large, red, rectangular animals having been finished off, there was opportunity for a little conversation.
At Ado a harvest-festival was in progress in the balei, which, there, was of rectangular shape.
The most prominent feature of the place was a house of worship, the so-called balei, a square bamboo structure, the roomy interior of which had in the centre a rectangular dancing-floor of bamboo sticks.
Mantles were semicircular in cut and held in divers ways, and their borders were adorned with rectangular metal plaques, each pierced with five holes, a double cord being passed through these holes and fastened behind.
Gold bands and crowns rested on the hair, a rectangular kerchief folded in two receiving some attention.
They had large rectangular windows, most of them open, a few with lattice shades.
This box was rectangular in shape; six feet long, perhaps, two feet broad, and the same in depth.
Beside it stood a long, low, rectangular building we took to be a garage.
Farther back a small, steep flight of steps led up through a rectangular opening to the building above.
The design, inclosed by a circle, represents a cross such as would be formed by two rectangular tablets or slips, slit longitudinally and interlaced at right-angles to each other.
It had consisted of two rectangular rooms running north and south.
The Caracol, or "Winding Staircase," stands on two rectangular stone-faced terraces reached by steps.
From the outer corridor there is but one door leading to the inner corridor, through which in turn thirty steps lead down to a rectangular courtyard 80 feet long by 70 feet broad.
A projectingrectangular terrace has been erected, supported by walls of quadrilateral blocks of limestone arranged almost horizontally; while upon the level thus formed a building of rectangular blocks of local travertine was raised.
Remains of the city wall, of rectangular blocks of hard limestone, may be seen just outside the Porta S.
Maria, a double gate constructed entirely ofrectangular blocks of tufa, are preserved.
The lower portion of the outer walls, which probably did not stand free, is built of roughly hewn blocks of a limestone which naturally splits into horizontal layers; above this in places is walling of rectangular blocks of tufa.
In all the above churches, whether Anglo-Saxon or Norman, the chancel, whether rectangular or apsidal, was quite small.
On the upper surface of the stone is a rectangular groove large enough to receive an inscribed plate.
The palette was of thin wood, in shape a rectangular oblong, with a groove in which to lay the brush at the lower end.
The models were little rectangular tablets, squared off in order that the scholar might enlarge or reduce the scale of his subject without departing from the traditional proportions.
A rectangular space, some eight or ten feet in width, by perhaps sixteen or eighteen feet in length, is enclosed in a wickerwork of palm- branches, coated on both sides with a layer of mud.
This is a low, small, obscure, rectangular chamber, inaccessible to all save Pharaoh and the priests.
The enormous rectangular mass which the Arabs call Mastabat el Faraûn, "the seat of Pharaoh" (fig.
The houses of an ancient Egyptian town were clustered round its temple, and the temple stood in a rectangular enclosure to which access was obtained through monumental gateways in the surrounding brick wall.
Under the Memphite and first Theban empires, we find only rectangular chests in sycamore wood, flat at top and bottom, and made of many pieces joined together by wooden pins.
In place of the shaft, they contain a small rectangular court, in the western corner of which was placed the sarcophagus.
The lower part is a mastaba with a square or oblong rectangular base, the greatest length of the latter being sometimes forty or fifty feet.
Two lions, standing side by side, support a sloping, rectangular tablet, whence the libation ran off by a small channel into a vase placed between the tails of the lions.
The rectangular plan, though excellent in a plain, was not always available in a hilly country.
These statues are mostly backed by a kind of rectangular pediment, which is either squared off just at the base of the skull, or carried up in a point and lost in the head-dress, or rounded at the top and showing above the head of the figure.
The students were asked to describe precisely what they saw, and with one exception they all described, in different words, a semicircular piece of cardboard with a rectangular piece in front of it.
The middle piece, which is rectangular and high, was placed a little in front of the rest of the figure.
The Usk now receives a goodly contribution from the Yscir; and between the two streams are the remains of a Roman camp, the Gaer, rectangular in form and believed to have been in command of Ostorius Scapula.
Mark off on a sheet of paper a rectangular space 5 inches by 3 inches, and then find the greatest number of halfpennies that can be placed within the enclosure under the following conditions.
In other words, the smallest rectangular board on which a re-entrant tour is possible is one that is 6 by 5.
If you take a rectangular piece of cardboard, twice as long as it is broad, and cut it in half diagonally, you will get two of the pieces shown in the illustration.
The general formula for the number of routes from one corner to the corner diagonally opposite on any such rectangular reticulated arrangement, under the conditions as to direction, is (m+n)!
But a perfect tour may be made on a rectangular board of any dimensions provided the number of squares be even, and that the number of squares on one side be not less than 6 and on the other not less than 5.
It was a little rectangular paper, some four or five inches long; bearing a figure of Christ, wounded, with His hands bound together before Him, and the Cross with the superscription rising behind.
Clothing is put away in covered oval or rectangular baskets, opigan (Plate LXIX, No.
They are rectangularin form, usually about six feet long and three wide, and are undecorated.
In Manabo a rectangular hole is dug to about five feet, then at right angles to this a chamber is cut to receive the body.
It would be quite possible to work on the same principle, but upon a structure of more or lessrectangular masses.
If one had a tendency to round one's forms too much, it would be well to try the rectangular method to correct this, and vice versâ.
Original sides of brown leather have been laid down on modern binding; ornamented in blind with rectangular panel formed by two roll stamps, enclosing another panel formed by the same stamps.
Several of the bindings are adorned with rectangular panels formed by fillets and bands, the enclosed space being divided, after the German system, into lozenge-shaped compartments.
The only approximation is to be found in the small rectangular plates of slate, &c.
It was very simple in outline--merely a rectangular building provided with doors, but without windows.
A Scriptural reference to the "four corners of the earth" [3] was sometimes thought to imply the existence of a rectangular world.
The palace consisted of a series of one storied rectangular halls and long corridors surrounding inner courts.
These houses are nearly always rectangular in shape, as also are all of those built of stone masonry in the valley regions.
They are rectangular in plan, sometimes with a board roof, and occasionally comprise several rooms.
A koka is a rectangular sloping space cut into the rock, tunnel fashion, extending six feet horizontally, sufficiently wide and high to admit of a corpse being pushed into it.
A rectangular figure longer than it is broad; hence, any figure longer than it is broad.
An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano.
A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
An oblongrectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.
A rectangular arrangement of symbols in rows and columns.
A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the jionts of framework, etc.
It is so named from the fact that the projections of three equal lines, parallel respectively to three rectangular axes, are equal to one another.
