balection moulding

Architecture: A projecting moulding, situated around the panels of a framing. ( Gwilt .) bạ-lec-tioned, a. [BALECTION.) Furnished with balection mouldings. bā'led, pa. par . [BALE, v . (1).] bā'led, pa . par . [BALE, v. (2).] ba-lē'en, s [In Fr. baleine = (1) a whale, (2) whalebone; Lat. balena ; Dut. bale in = whalebone (q.v.).] IMG:content-1013.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Subjectively: Full of grief or misery; sorrowful, sad, woeful. "Such stormy stoures do breede my bale full smart, As if my yeare were wast and woxen old." Spenser: Shep. Cal., i. "... round he throws his baleful eyes, That witne ed huge affliction and dismay.' Milton: P. L., bk. 1. 2. Objectively: Pernicious, harmful, deadly. "He cast about, and searcht his baleful bokes againe." Spenser: F. Q., I. ii. 2. by baleful Furies led.. Pope: Thebais of Statius, 95. "It is Count Hugo of the Rhine, The deadliest foe of all our race, And baleful unto me and mine!" Long fellow: Golden Legend, iv. bale-ful-ly, adv . [Eng. baleful ; -ly .] In a baleful manner; perniciously, harmfully. (Johnson.)