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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
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e elevating power being a winch, ropes, and pulleys. Staging and frame. In Fig. 5521, the outer frame has an upper, braced stage and a lower suspended stage, and its uprights are bolted to vertical pieces inside the building. Fig. 5522 is a staging for shingling or repairing roofs. The ends of the portable staging support are provided with toothed plates, which fit into the roof and prevent the scaffolding placed on the support from slipping. See also scaffold; lad-der; etc. Stail. A mop or broom handle. Stained-glass. Glass painted on the surface with various mineral pigments, which are afterward fused and fixed by the application of heat. The glass should be colorless, uniform, and difficult of fusion; crown glass, made with but little alkali, being preferred. The design on paper is applied to the back of the glass, and the outlines traced through with a fine pencil in dark colors, after which the proper pigments to produce, when burnt, the various co