A spherical ornament placed on the summit of a tower, dome, gable, or pillar, at the corners of an altar, etc.; the ornamental top of a tent pole…

Architecture (a) The finishing of stone, metal, etc., which surmounts a roof-ridge, wall, screen, or the like; a cresting; sometimes applied to…

Architecture. An ornament placed upon the apex of a roof, pediment, or gable, or upon each of the corners of a tower, etc.; a similar ornament…

Architecture. A round ball or globe crowning a pillar, pier, etc.

Architecture. A cresting of open carved work on the top of a shrine.

Architecture. A raised, rounded ornament, e.g. on a moulding or as a boss at the intersection of ribs in a vaulted roof.

Architecture. Any ornament in the form of a scroll, as the volute of an Ionic capital.

Architecture. A round decorative band or wreath. Obsolete. rare.

Architecture. Carved ornament, esp. in ceilings, consisting of intersecting lines in relief. Obsolete.

Perhaps: = guilloche, n.

Architecture. A pinnacle or other ornament forming part of a range on the horizontal coping or parapet of a building. Chiefly in plural. Obsolete.

A thing consisting of a long series of identical objects. Architecture. A row of bead-like ornaments. Obsolete.

a ball, an urn in half-relief.

Decorative Arts. An ornament or decoration resembling a shallow round dish.

Architecture. The ornamentation of an edge or ridge; an example of this, a decoration or embellishment. Cf. purfle, v. 3b. Obsolete. rare.

Projecting. sailing course n. a projecting course in (usually) the upper part of a light-house or other tower-like building.

vesica piscis (also piscium), a pointed oval figure, the sides of which are properly parts of two equal circles passing through each other at their…

An ornamental fixture placed on the eaves or cornice of a building to conceal the end of a tile; (also) an ornamental head, etc., forming a spout…

elliptical in this sense. Also attributive and in other combinations.

Something that resembles a garland in circular form, or in the fact of surrounding another object. Architecture. (See quot. 1823.)

Architecture. An ornamental termination to a chamfer.

Architecture. An ornamental figure consisting of a rod with a serpent entwined around it.

Architecture. Ornamentation at the top part of a piece of stonework, or on the keystone of an arch. Now rare.

a convoluted scroll-pattern employed as an architectural ornament.

an ornamental ball or finial positioned where the ridge and hips of a roof meet.

Ancient History. Architecture. (See quot. 1840.)

an ornament in the shape of a ball enclosed within three or four petals of a flower, often inserted in a hollow moulding; frequently attributive.

an ornamental incision in stone.

A corrupt form of brattishing, n.

In Architecture (see quot.).

An ornament in Norman architecture.

A sculptured ornament representing an ox-skull.

Architecture. An ornamental ridging to a wall or roof.

a ball, an urn in half-relief.

Architecture. Applied to ‘figures of young persons, of either sex, bearing on their heads baskets containing materials for sacrifice’ (Gwilt Encyc…

a board which forms the crest or finishing of any projecting part of a building.

= Vitruvian scroll n. at Vitruvian, adj. b.

transferred and figurative. A figure or ornament somewhat resembling a husk.

a representation of a man's face composed of, surrounded by, or sprouting foliage or branches, esp. used as an architectural ornament; = green man, n.…

A representation of a man's face composed of, surrounded by, or sprouting foliage or branches, esp. used as an architectural ornament. Cf. foliate…