or Tile, in building, a sort of thin laminated brick, used on the roofs of houses; or more properly a kind kind of fat clayey earth, kneaded and moulded, of a just thickness, dried and burnt in a kiln like brick, and used in the covering and paving of houses.

**TYMPAN** of an arch, is a triangular space or table in the corners or sides of an arch, usually hollowed, and enriched sometimes with branches of laurel, olive-tree, or oak, or with trophies, &c., sometimes with flying figures, as fame, &c., or sitting figures, as the cardinal virtues.