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Return :: Return (n.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south..

Fictile :: Fictile (a.) Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material..

Swash :: Swash (v. t.) An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work..

Die :: Die (v. i.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face..

Charge :: Charge (v. t.) To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding..

Bilection :: Bilection (n.) That portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection.

Board :: Board (n.) A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board..

Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc..

Molding :: Molding (n.) Alt. of Mouldin.

Astragal :: Astragal (n.) A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle..

Print :: Print (n.) A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print..

Groove :: Groove (n.) A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut..

Fillet :: Fillet (n.) The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.

Spandrel :: Spandrel (n.) The irregular triangular space between the curve of an arch and the inclosing right angle; or the space between the outer moldings of two contiguous arches and a horizontal line above them, or another arch above and inclosing them..

Cavetto :: Cavetto (n.) A concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture. See Illust. of Column.

Ogee :: Ogee (n.) A molding, the section of which is the form of the letter S, with the convex part above; cyma reversa. See Illust. under Cyma..

Nosing :: Nosing (n.) That part of the treadboard of a stair which projects over the riser; hence, any like projection, as the projecting edge of a molding..

Pedestal :: Pedestal (n.) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column..

Rib :: Rib (n.) A projecting mold, or group of moldings, forming with others a pattern, as on a ceiling, ornamental door, or the like..

Cable :: Cable (n.) A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding..

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