_Scotia_, from [Greek: skotos] _tenebrae_, _Darkness_, is a Member of Architecture, hollowed as a Demi-channel: It's particularly affected in the Bases where it's placed, between the Torus and the Astragals; it's sometimes put under the _Drip_, in the Cornice of the _Dorick_ Order. _Statumen_ signifies generally whatsoever is made use of to support any thing in Architecture; it is Mortar mixt with Pibbles, which served for the first Lay or Bed in Flooring. _Systyle_, from [Greek: syn] _con_, and [Greek: stylos] _columna_; signifies building where the Pillars seem to be joyned together, for the _Intercolumniation_ is but of two Diameters of the Pillars. T _Torus_ is a Member in the Base which is round, in the form of a great Ring; it comes from the Latin word _Torus_, which signifies a Bed. _Tringle_ is a little square Member, which is directly upon every _Triglyph_, under the Platt-band of the _Architrave_, from whence hang down the _Guttae_, or pendant Drops in the _Dorick Order_. _Triglyph_, from [Greek: tris] _ter_, and [Greek: glyphos] _sculptura_; because it's divided into three parts, and engraved, it is a Member in the Freeze of the Dorick Order, directly upon every Pillar, and in certain spaces in the _Intercolumniations_. _Tympan_ signifies a Drum; it's that part of the bottom of the Frontons which answers the naked of the Freeze; it is triangular, and placed upon the Cornice of the Entablature, and covered over again with two other Cornices which slope a little. V _Volute_ signifies wreathed, and turned about from _Volvendo_; it's a part of the Capitals of the _Ionick_, _Corinthian_, and _Compound Orders_, which represents the bark of a Tree twisted and turned into a Spiral line. X _Xyste_, from the Greek [Greek: zytos], which signifies scraped; it was the place where the Wrestlers exercised; it was so called because they made their skins be scraped and rubbed smooth, to make the Sweat fall, and to make their Bodies more slippery, that their Adversaries might have the less hold of them when they closed. To the Reader.