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Blocking Course :: Blocking course () The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.

Dentil :: Dentil (n.) A small square block or projection in cornices, a number of which are ranged in an ornamental band; -- used particularly in the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders..

Corniced :: Corniced (a.) Having a cornice.

Jutting :: "Jutting (a.) Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc..

Weathered :: Weathered (a.) Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill..

Cantalever :: Cantalever (n.) A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like..

Drip :: Drip (n.) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water..

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..

Antefix :: Antefix (n.) An ornament of the cymatium of a classic cornice, sometimes pierced for the escape of water..

Plancher :: Plancher (n.) The under side of a cornice; a soffit.

Ancone :: Ancone (n.) A bracket supporting a cornice; a console.

Cornic :: Cornic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (Cornus florida)..

Casemate :: Casemate (n.) A hollow molding, chiefly in cornices..

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

Bed-moulding :: Bed-moulding (n.) The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona.

Entablature :: Entablature (n.) The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column, Cornice..

Tympanum :: Tympanum (n.) The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or table..

Epitithides :: Epitithides (n.) The uppermost member of the cornice of an entablature.

Corniculum :: Corniculum (n.) A small hornlike part or process.

Zoophorous :: Zoophorous (n.) The part between the architrave and cornice; the frieze; -- so called from the figures of animals carved upon it.

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