Testaceum, R. (testa). Made of tiles; the term was used to denote a roofing or pavement made with the fragments of broken tiles.
Tester. (1) Any flat canopy. The framework over a four-post bedstead. (2) A silver coin so called from the head (teste) of the king upon it. In the reign of Henry VIII. it was worth 12d. and afterwards 6d. French testers were struck by Louis XII. in 1513, and Scotch under Queen Mary in 1559.
Testière, Med. Fr. Originally, mailed armour for a horse’s head, subsequently a plate between the ears on which a crest was fixed. (See Chanfron.)
Testif, Fr. Camel’s hair.
Testudinatus, R. Made in the form of a Testudo (q.v.); the term was applied either to a roof or a ceiling.
Testudineus, R. Made with tortoise-shells.
Fig. 649. Testudo.
Testudo, R. (testa, a shell). (1) A tortoise, and thence a lyre of which the sounding bottom was made out of a tortoise-shell. (2) In Architecture, an arched ceiling, the four sides of which converge to a centre. (3) Testudo arietaria was a movable wooden shed covered with skins and containing a battering-ram (Fig. [574]). (4) Lastly the term denoted a kind of defensive roof formed by the shields of soldiers when advancing to the foot of a rampart (Fig. [649]).
Tetra-chordon, Gr. and R. (τετρά-χορδον). Literally, having four strings; hydraulos tetrachordon was a hydraulic organ with four pipes.