Glossary

Here is where you'll find every key word on the website in alphabetical order. You'll find the whole defintion and a picture to go along with it.

Archbishop

In many denominations of the Christian religion, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank. Like popes, patriarchs, metropolitans, etc., archbishops belong to the category of bishops, the highest of the three traditional orders of bishops, priests, and deacons.

Blacksmith

A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects from wrought iron or steel by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. whitesmith). Blacksmiths produce objects such as gates, grilles, railings, light fixtures, furniture, sculpture, tools, agricultural implements, decorative and religious items, cooking utensils and weapons.

Copy Machine

A photocopier (also known as a copier or copy machine) is a machine that makes paper copies of documents and other visual images quickly and cheaply. Most current photocopiers use a technology called xerography, a dry process that uses electrostatic charges on a light sensitive photoreceptor to first attract and then transfer toner particles (a powder) onto paper in the form of an image. Heat, pressure or a combination of both is then used to fuse the toner onto the paper.

Goldsmith

A goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals. Historically goldsmiths have also made silverware, platters, goblets, decorative and serviceable utensils, and ceremonial orreligious items, but the rising prices of precious metals have curtailed the making of such items to a large degree.

Pith

Pith, or medulla, is a tissue in the stems of vascular plants. Pith is composed of soft, spongy parenchyma cells, which store and transport nutrients throughout the plant. In eudicots, pith is located in the center of the stem. In monocots, it extends also into flowering stems and roots. The pith is encircled by a ring of xylem; the xylem, in turn, is encircled by a ring of phloem. In simplilar terms, the pith is the insides of the stem.

Printer

A printer produces human-readable documents with or without color. It can either use lasers or ink jets in order to make these documents

Scriptorium

Scriptorium; literally "a place for writing", is commonly used to refer to a room in medieval European monasteries devoted to the writing, copying and illuminating of manuscripts by monastic scribes. Written accounts, surviving buildings, and archaeological excavations all show, however, that contrary to popular belief such rooms rarely existed: most monastic writing was done in cubicle-like recesses in the cloister, or in the monks' own cells.

Stylus

A stylus is a writing utensil, or a small tool for some other form of marking or shaping, for example in pottery. It usually refers to a narrow elongated staff, similar to a modern ballpoint pen. Many styluses are heavily curved to be held more easily. They were first found in mesopotamia to write in cuneiform.