The front had two crosses beneath semicircular heads, with conventional trees or candlesticks beside them, and a great piece of circular interfacings, small and large, like the slabs at S.
The arcade was round-arched, the central and right-hand apses were square-ended, and the left had a semicircular niche.
The floor is three feet above the piazza, and is approached by five semicircular steps.
It is cruciform in plan, with apsidal terminations to three arms, the west being square, and having a door with a semicircular tympanum above it internally.
The aisles are vaulted in the same manner, but with semicircular section.
The semicircular apse within it is of a later date, probably of the ninth century, of which period there are other remains--viz.
The nave and aisles terminate in semicircular apses.
In the semicircular tympanum is a round window enclosing a quatrefoil surrounded by an inscription with the date 1213 and the name of Bishop Treguanus.
The only other two Roman basilicas in which the semicircular apse can still be traced are that commenced by Maxentius and completed by Constantine at Rome and the basilica at Trier (Treves).
There is one important distinction to be drawn between the Byzantine and the Latin apses; they are both semicircular internally, but externally the former are nearly always polygonal.
From its narrow backbone one looks down on either side into broadly open, semicircular valley heads.
But, as it does so, it also attacks the cliffs that flank it, and as a consequence, the depression in which it lies tends to widen and to become semicircular in plan.
Architects date from him the abolition of the acute angle and restoration of semicircular arches, as in the Loggia of the Lanzi, which he likewise decorated with sculpture.
If the country is very level the Eskimo raise heaps of stones or build circular or semicircular walls to conceal themselves and allure the animals by grunting.
He builds up a semicircular wall of snow blocks to keep off the piercing wind and makes a seat in the center of it.
The approach to Gaffney's was a semicircular sweep of shell road leading from the main highway to the galleries of the saloon.
This work, left imperfect by him, was completed by Pagani, by Montelatici, and by Furini, with some semicircular pieces.
His seventeen semicircular pictures in the cloisters of All Saints, are valued at Florence; especially the interview between S.
We ought to form an opinion from the works of his best period, such as his semicircular pieces in the cloister of the Carmine.
His son, Ottaviano, appears his follower in some semicircular pictures in the cloister of S.
The cloister of the Nunziata has many of his semicircular pieces; and that representing Alexander IV.
It has a semicircular flat tail, and behind the head are two oval fins, beneath which are the breasts, which yield a white milk.
Partitions of palm-leaves divide it into apartments for families, the chief occupying the semicircular end.
A semicircular cordon of hills runs back from their termini, and with an inner circle surrounds and hems in Alassio lying in the basin below.
The gateways of the town built by Sargon at the foot of his palace mound were roofed with semicircular vaults.
In the first place the reader will recognize those semicircular pilasters or gigantic reeds to which we have already alluded as strongly characteristic of Chaldæan architecture, and one of the most certain signs of its origin.
On the left of the engraving semicircular vaults are shown, on the right a timbered roof.
The semicircular vault gradually and insensibly changes into an elliptical one.
Wherever the architect makes use of a round-headed opening he reinforces its outlines with a kind of semicircular frieze, to which brilliant colours or bold reliefs would give no little decorative value.
Upon one face a semicircular hollow or socket may be noticed, in which the foot of the bronze pivots, or rather the pivot shod and faced with bronze, upon which the heavy timber doors and their casings of metal were hung, had to turn.
At Khorsabad, for instance, it runs across the foot of those semicircular pilasters we noticed in one of the harem chambers (Fig.
He says he was killed by a stroke from what the natives use as a sword (an instrument of semicircular form) five to eight feet long and very formidable.
On a bearing of 18 degrees, at twenty-two miles, arrived at Lake Perigundi, a semicircular lake from three to four miles in length by one and three-quarter miles broad.
Its minute filaments spread at last over the inner walls of the membranous labyrinth in two branches,--one going to the vestibule and the ampullæ at the ends of the semicircular canals, the other leading to the cochlea.
From one side of this vestibule, or central hall, the three semicircularcanals pass off, and from the other side, the cochlea.
The dilated part of the semicircular canals of the internal ear.
A portion of the internal ear, communicating with the semicircular canals and the cochlea, so called from its fancied resemblance to the vestibule, or porch, of a house.
In the pupae of many of this tribe this lid is composed of two semicircular pieces, which can be separately removed.
Only four swords with the little semicircular guard or "half pas d'ane" were known when he described them, being introduced owing to the Italian custom of bending the forefinger round the quillon when slashing.
Its peculiarity is the semicircular guard for the forefinger growing out of one of the quillons, the first step, as Baron de Cosson remarks, "towards the evolution of the beautiful and complicated rapier of the sixteenth century.
Although he was still under thirty, this forecasting habit had marked two semicircular lines above his eyebrows, which threatened, at this moment, to crease into their wonted shapes.
A semicircular flight of shallow steps led to a very large door, which Katharine had left ajar.
A feeling of great intimacy united the brother and sister, and the semicircular lines above their eyebrows disappeared.
A flight of semicircular steps ran up to the hall, and Mary slowly mounted the first two or three, and paused, looking down upon Katharine.
Quintus stopped in front of a high-vaulted family tomb, of which the facade was decorated with a semicircular niche containing a marble seat.
The quaintly-clipped laurel and yew bushes, that stood between the six great avenues, were starred with semicircular lights, and the bronze and marble statues held torches and braziers of flame.
Its semicircular vaulted roof, and the pillars in its corners, indicated it to be of Byzantine origin; while a Greek sculptured cross, in the centre of the roof, told that it was a temple dedicated to that religion.
In this wall there is a small semicircular niche, probably intended to hold a statue of the genius of the spring.
These springs are situated on a plain about a mile long and half a mile broad, semicircular in shape, the chord of the arc consisting of a line of basalt precipices, from which it slopes gradually to the river, which forms the bow.
Two of the arches were fifteen or twenty feet high, and enclosed a semicircular space or hall for bathers.
The theatre is a semicircular building of masonry in an immense artificial mound, surrounded by a trench near the sea.
The cams are of almost semicircular shape, of which the widest part is three palms and a digit wide, and they are a palm thick; they are distributed according to the four sides of the axle, on the upper, the lower and the two lateral sides.
This light material is taken away with a limp, which is a thin tablet of wood almost semicircular in shape, three-quarters of a foot long, and half a foot wide.
The form of this church is one I have not seen elsewhere, presenting on plan four semicircular arms with a rectangular projection between each arm.
Six semicircular recesses are crowned by the circle of the dome.
The submerged remains of a semicircular mole--a work of the old Greek times--are indicated by a line of surf in the sea.
Abich describes this chapel as "a magnificent church in the form of a Greek cross with a central rotunda and four large semicircular niches at the sides" (op.
The metal framing of this was identical in arrangement with the ancient defence; consisting of a hoop encircling the head and two semicircular bands, crossing each other at the crown, and surmounted by a metal knob.
The smaller semicircular Horn is drawn on folio 70 of 20, D.
On one side was a range of lofty mountains, running in a semicircular form; the city itself covering an elevation slightly above the vast plain extending before it.
Suddenly he began to move; then he sprang, moving in a semicircular line, like a cat and uttering a tremendous roar.
Mantles were of a semicircular shape, with a long train fastening to the front with a buckle, or finished with a turnover collar held in place with ribbons on the shoulders.
Mantles weresemicircular 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.
A semicircular cloak was thrown over the shoulders and fastened in front, and left open or buttoned from throat to hem.
This done, a broad, semicircular line is cut round the hole, the hook is inserted, and the main body of the crew striking up a wild chorus, now commence heaving in one dense crowd at the windlass.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "semicircular" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crescent; falcate; horned; lunar; semicircular; sigmoid
