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That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture. Any sculptured or richly

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That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture. Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column. Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven. Milton.

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  • BROKEN WIND
    The heaves.
  • BROKEN BREAST
    Abscess of the mammary gland.
  • UNIFORMISM
    The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
  • OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
    Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
  • SCULPTURESQUE
    After the manner of sculpture; resembling, or relating to, sculpture.
  • SCULPTURE
    1. The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials. 2. Carved work
  • UNIFORMAL
    Uniform. Herrick.
  • BROKEN
    1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;
  • UNIFORMLY
    In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly , to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of
  • MEMBER
    A part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb. We have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office. Rom. xii. 4. 2. Hence, a part of a whole; an independent constituent of a body; as: A part
  • ARCHITRAVED
    Furnished with an architrave. Cowper.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • BROKEN-WINDED
    Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.
  • OFTENNESS
    Frequency. Hooker.
  • OTHER
    andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
  • ORDERLY
    1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
  • MEMBERSHIP
    1. The state of being a member. 2. The collective body of members, as of a society.
  • OTHERNESS
    The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • CORNICED
    Having a cornice.
  • NOTOTHERIUM
    An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
  • ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
    Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
  • SMOTHER
    Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
  • ISOTHEROMBROSE
    A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
  • MISREMEMBER
    To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
  • IMBORDER
    To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • MESOCUNEIFORM; MESOCUNIFORM
    One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.
  • UNMOTHERED
    Deprived of a mother; motherless.
  • ISOTHERMAL
    Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
  • EEL-MOTHER
    The eelpout.
  • ISOTHERMOBATHIC
    Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
  • MOTHER-OF-PEARL
    The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
  • HEARTBROKEN
    Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.

 

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