Counter-hauriant.—A heraldic term. Counter = reversed: hauriant = swimming vertically. Two fishes swimming vertically, facing each other, are counter-hauriant.
Crenellate.—To fortify with battlements.
Crocket.—Projecting leaves or flowers placed on pinnacles, gables, or the mouldings of doors and windows, &c.
Cross-brace.—An oblique wooden tie or support.
Cusp.—A projecting point in the arches of tracery.
Dado.—The architectural treatment of the lower part of the walls of a room.
Daïs.—The raised part of the floor at the upper end of a hall.
Dog-gate.—A gate placed across a staircase to prevent dogs from going into the upper rooms of a house.
Dormer.—A window in a roof.
Entablature.—A series of horizontal mouldings at the summit of a wall, or surmounting a row of columns. An entablature consists of three members. The lowest is a series of mouldings of slight projection, called the architrave. Above this is a vertical face, called the frieze; above this a series of widely projecting mouldings, called the cornice.