MOULDING

(Fr. moule.) In Architecture, the members of an order, which are shaped into various curved or flat forms, of which there are eight sorts. The fillet, which is square in profile (1); the astragal (2); 5 4 r the torus (3), being larger than the astragal; the scotia (4); the echinus (5), or quarter round; the inverted cyma, talon, or ogee (6); the cyma, cyma recta, or cymatium (7); and the cavetto or hollow (8). [s. 788]