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PERPENT, or PARPENT STONES

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 180 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PERPENT, or PARPENT STONES , in See also:architecture, See also:bond or " through stones," the &a-rovot of the Greeks and See also:Romans, See also:long stones going right through walls, and tying them together from See also:face to face. The O. Fr. See also:par See also:pain, See also:modern parpaing, from which this word is derived, is obscure in origin. It may be from a supposed See also:Lat. perpago, perpaginis, formed like compago, a See also:joint, from the See also:root of pangere, to fasten, and meaning " some-thing fastened together," or from some popular corruption of Lat. perpendiculum, plummet or plumb-See also:line (pir or pendere, to hang), referring to the smooth perpendicular faces of the See also:stone.

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