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

Plastic :: Plastic (a.) Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts..

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

Bird''s-beak :: Bird's-beak (n.) A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak.

Moulding :: Moulding (n.) A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface. Moldings vary greatly in pattern, and are generally used in groups, the different members of each group projecting or retreating, one beyond another. See Cable, n., 3, and Crenelated molding, under Crenelate, v. t..

Baguette :: Baguette (n.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead..

Gorgerin :: Gorgerin (n.) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column..

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..

Temper :: Temper (v. t.) To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc..

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..

Moulding :: Moulding (p.a.) Used in making a mold or moldings; used in shaping anything according to a pattern.

Platband :: Platband (n.) A flat molding, or group of moldings, the width of which much exceeds its projection, as the face of an architrave..

Candy :: Candy (v. t.) A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flavored or colored, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc..

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

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

Mitre :: Mitre (v. i.) To meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction..

Neckmould :: Neckmould (n.) A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction of the shaft and capital.

Beading :: Beading (n.) Molding in imitation of beads.

Planted :: Planted (a.) Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding..

Cyma :: Cyma (n.) A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form..

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