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

Astragal :: Astragal (n.) A round molding encircling a cannon near the mouth.

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

Ledgment :: Ledgment (n.) A string-course or horizontal suit of moldings, such as the base moldings of a building..

Gorge :: Gorge (n.) A concave molding; a cavetto.

Dressing :: Dressing (n.) An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc..

Hood Molding :: Hood molding () Alt. of Hood mouldin.

Label :: Label (n.) The name now generally given to the projecting molding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture. It always has a /quare form, as in the illustration..

Bague :: Bague (n.) The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.

Molding :: Molding (p.a.) Alt. of Mouldin.

Mitre :: Mitre (v. t.) To match together, as two pieces of molding or brass rule on a line bisecting the angle of junction; to bevel the ends or edges of, for the purpose of matching together at an angle..

Arris :: Arris (n.) The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column..

Boultin :: Boultin (n.) A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo..

Echinus :: Echinus (n.) The quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. See Illust. of Colum.

Godroon :: Godroon (n.) An ornament produced by notching or carving a rounded molding.

Plaster :: Plaster (n.) Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer..

Fillet :: Fillet (n.) A narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. See Illust. of Base, and Column..

Reglet :: Reglet (n.) A flat, narrow molding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. See Illust. (12) of Column..

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..

List :: List (n.) A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also listel.

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