=Comb back.= A Windsor chair back, with an extension top, shaped like a comb. =Commode.= A chest of drawers. =Console table.= One to be placed below a looking-glass, sometimes with a glass between the back legs. =Court= or =Press cupboard=. A very early cupboard with doors and drawers below and a smaller cupboard above, the top being supported by heavy turned columns at the corners. D =Day bed= or =Chaise longue=. A long narrow seat used as a couch or settee, usually with four legs upon each side, and a chair back at the head. =Dentils.= An architectural ornament made of a series of small detached cubes. =Desk.= A piece of furniture with conveniences for writing. =Desk box.= A box similar to a Bible box, made to hold books or papers. =Diaper.= A small pattern or design, repeated indefinitely on a surface. =Dish top.= A table top with a plain raised rim. =Dovetail.= Fastening together with mortise and tenon. =Dowel.= A wooden pin used to fasten sections together. =Dresser.= A set of shelves for dishes. =Dutch foot.= A foot which spreads from the leg in a circular termination. E =Egg and dart.= A form of ornament made of egg-shaped pieces with dart-shaped pieces between. =Empire style.= A style which became popular during the First Empire, largely formed upon Egyptian styles, found by Napoleon during his Egyptian campaign. Later the term was applied to the heavy furniture with coarse carving, of the first quarter of the nineteenth century. =Escritoire.= A secretary. =Escutcheon.= The metal plate of a key-hole. F =Fan back.= The back of a Windsor chair with the spindles flaring like an open fan. =Fender.= A guard of pierced metal, or wire, to place before an open fire. =Field bedstead.= One with half high posts which uphold a frame covered with netting or cloth. =Finial.= The ornament which is used at the top of a pointed effect as a finish. =Flemish foot= or =leg=. An early scroll form with one scroll turning in and the other turning out; found upon Jacobean furniture. =Fluting.= A series of concave grooves. =French foot.= In Chippendale’s time, a scroll foot terminating a cabriole leg; in Hepplewhite’s time, a delicate form of a bracket foot. =Fretwork.= A form of ornament in furniture, sawed or carved in an open design. G =Gadroon= or =Godroon=. A form of ornament consisting of a series of convex flutings, chiefly used in a twisted form as a finish to the edge. =Gallery.= The raised and pierced rim upon a table top, usually in Chinese fretwork. =Gate-legged=, =hundred-legged=, or =forty-legged table=. An early table with drop leaves and stretchers between the legs, of which there are six stationary upon the middle section, and one or two which swing out to hold up the drop leaves. =Girandole.= A mirror with fixtures for candles. =Guéridon.= A stand to hold a candelabra,—a candle-stand.