A small circular opening, and ring of moldings surrounding it, used in window tracery in Gothic architecture.
A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like.
A board or group of moldings running round a room on a level with the tops of the chair backs.
Moldings vary greatly in pattern, and are generally used in groups, the different members of each group projecting or retreating, one beyond another.
Note: The impost is called continuous, if the moldings of the arch or architrave run down the jamb or pier without a break.
A string-course or horizontal suit of moldings, such as the base moldings of a building.
Defn: An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
Ordinarly, mortar is used for the greater part of the work, and pure plaster of Paris for the moldings and ornaments.
Running parts go a lighter tint of cream, and stripe black to correspond with black moldings on body.
Cutting through on the edges of the moldings is nicely avoided in this way.
Or the body panels may be done in deep ultramarine blue, moldings black, with letters in gold and ornaments and striping in gold and white.
In rubbing cutter or sleigh work furnished with heavy moldings out of varnish, use, for surfacing such moldings, any varnish brush of a small pattern worn to a stub.
The business wagon painter has many moldings and battens to black, and he greatly needs a good, pleasant handling pencil with which to do the work.
The account contains also a charge for painting the bosses (nodi) at the intersection of the moldings that separate the panels.
The ground storey is pierced with five large and elaborate round-headed doorways with good moldings and labels, with a delicate dog-tooth ornament.
The samples of work illustrated show some of the moldings which can be turned out with the plane.
The use of moldings was early resorted to by the nations of antiquity, and we marvel to-day at many of the beautiful designs which the Ph[oe]necians, the Greeks and the Romans produced.
This is another tool, which does not cost much and is of great service to the carpenter in fitting moldings where they are applied at odd angles.
We shall see how the ancients combinedmoldings to produce grace, lights and shadows and artistic effects.
Then these were molded and mitered at the corners, and later a cap of heavier moldings was put across the top.
The original wainscot with its molded cap divides the wall surface in an agreeable proportion, and the rather heavy cornice moldings at the ceiling line relieve the emphasis of the great beams.
The moldings about the frame and over the mantel are unusually fine for this type of house; the support of the heavy mantel shelf and the carved dentils in the ceiling cornice are especially interesting.
As the Georgian details were developed, the gable-roofed dormer was used with the cornice moldings of porches and door frames.
A slight reduction in the height of the window casing affords an opportunity to carry the wall-paper and moldings across the windows and doors, thus avoiding the cramped effect of too high window arrangement.
The mullioned panes of the china closet and the treatment of the moldings about the frame are especially interesting.
This was soon developed into the flat sunken panel, meeting the surrounding wood with several moldings; and then the panels were beveled and raised in the center, and the moldings gradually became more elaborate and delicate in outline.
That portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection.
The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.
A flight of steps led up from the garden to a deep sort of open entrance-hall, where a light was burning, showing a door of no very great size, surrounded with innumerable delicate moldings of stone.
The floral frieze under the moldings is, however, somewhat more elaborate on the anta than on the adjacent wall.
It is finished off with moldings along the upper edge.
Perhaps it is inaccurate in this case to speak of an anta-capital at all, seeing that the anta simply shares the moldings which crown the wall.
Whatever be the origin of moldings, the same rules apply to them which apply to other profiles, with the additional rule that moldings must always be kept subordinate to the principal object.
Moldings are as old as architecture, and vary with schools of architecture.
Mayeux's work, are given the most ordinary Greek moldings with their French names.
The term molding would seem to indicate that moldings were made apart and subsequently applied to the main object.
As at Whitby Hall the familiar Grecian fret very acceptably occupies the space between the inner and outer moldings of this frame and obviates the need of any elaborate carved decoration above the panel.
Much like this, though simpler in the absence of any enrichedmoldings and having less projection, is the chimney piece on the second floor of an old Spruce Street house shown by an accompanying illustration.
Moldings are very simple and confined to the edge of the panels, with the splayed or beveled panels of earlier years gradually being abandoned in favor of plain, flat surfaces.
In this latter respect its best features are the cornice with its beautifully enriched moldings and modillions, the balustrade above, the window heads supported by hand-tooled consoles and the insert panels under the portico.
The frames were of heavy construction held together at the corners by large dowel pins and were ornamented by suitable moldings broken around the reveals of the masonry and by molded sash guides in the frame.
Only simple moldingshave been employed, and the detail can hardly be said to belong to any particular order of architecture.
Instead of the usual pilasters the entablature is supported by two pairs of slender reeded colonnettes, and the fireplace opening is framed by moldings in which a torus enriched with a rope motive is prominent.
Unlike hardwood finish, the natural grain of the wood is concealed by painting, so that broad flat surfaces and simple moldings would be monotonous.
Resembling the foregoing, but more elaborate, is the mantel in the parlor with its richer moldings and intricate carving.
In furtherance of this thought, only the cornice with its jig-sawed modillions was employed at the ceiling and the flat dado was paneled off by the application of moldings to give it a lighter scale.
Many of them became apt students of architecture and proficient in executing hand-tooled enriched moldings and other ornament for mantels and chimney pieces.
This room would have been less used than downstairs rooms and the moldings are bound to be simpler, as is often found in the nineteenth century, when the upstairs was no longer as much used as in the eighteenth century.
To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
The irregular triangular space between the curve of an arch and the inclosing right angle; or the space between the outer moldings of two contiguous arches and a horizontal line above them, or another arch above and inclosing them.
An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
These rooms are handsomely wainscoted with white pine, wrought into neat moldings and panels, and the casements of the deep windows are of the same material and in the same style.
The interior of the old part is kept in the same condition as it was when Steuben occupied it, being, like most of the better dwellings of that time, neatly wainscoted with pine, wrought into moldings and panels.
The walls of most of the rooms and halls are painted a very deep tone of cream and are broken into panels, the moldings being painted cream like the woodwork.
The cream walls, with their carved moldings and graceful panelings, are a pleasant background for all this shimmering color.
The walls of the rooms were paneled in a delicious color between yellow and tan, the wall proper and the moldings being this color, and the panels themselves filled with a gray paper painted in pinky yellows and browns.
These mirrors are really the most important things in the room, because the moldings and lighting-fixtures and picture frames have been made to harmonize with them.
Having traced the lines of your design upon the board, you may begin, if there are moldings as in Fig.
There are no capitals, the moldings die away in the shafts, the triforium is glazed.
The XV century rehandled the high vaulting and clearstory, where appear die-away moldings and flamelike tracery.
The choir of Rouen Cathedral showed more the regional characteristics; the arches were more acute and the moldings multiple.
In the door, its central pillar, carved lintels and encompassing large pointed arch, with its deep moldings and flanking shafts, are of the finest Veronese 13th century work.
The jambs and splays, the shafts, the archivolts, the moldings and tympanums are covered with carving, varied and singularly interesting in the diversity of its period and character.
The arch of the Gate of Pardon is exquisitely formed and its moldings and recesses are profusely decorated with finely chiseled figures and ornaments.
The moldings of all the openings interpenetrate, and the whole arcade has the air of intricate ingenuity so usual in Moorish work.
Everything that could be carved is there, figures, foliage, tracery, moldings and mere conventionalized ornament.
The larger moldings are formed of sheet iron, bent to the shape required and flush-riveted to their light frames.
These are broken by long, narrow, round-headed openings, vivified by ball moldingsornamenting the heavy rounding of their splays.
In the moldings surrounding these, are very exquisite little figures of early sixteenth-century work executed in terra-cotta.
There are enough coats-of-arms to supply whole nations with heraldic emblems, and recessed moldings of remarkable and exquisite workmanship and crispness of foliage.
New leaves and moldings are being set to-day to replace the old.
Both statues and moldings are of character and outline similar to French work of this best period, nevertheless of a certain distinctly Spanish feeling.
Later Renaissance statues of the Annunciation and Saint Peter and Saint Paul, as well as Florentine pilasters and ornament, flank the Moorish moldings in an utterly meaningless manner.
Panelings and moldings that had done duty during the Jacobean period were retained in all their splendor, and to these were added the new feature of the claw-and-ball foot.
Many of these glasses were oval in shape, though the majority consisted of three panels of glass separated only by narrow moldings of wood.
It forms one of a range of four, turning an angle, whose moldings join each other, their double breadth being the whole separation of the apertures, which are something more than double squares.
I think I should like my windows Egyptian, with hieroglyphics, sir; storks and coffins, and appropriate moldings above: I brought some from Fountains Abbey the other day.
A long-handled feather duster is handy for cleaningmoldings and cornices.
Baseboard andmoldings should also be treated in this way.
Metal moldings and gas pipes must be securely fastened to outlet boxes, junction boxes, and cabinets, so as to secure a good electrical connection.
Connection to grounded pipes and to metal moldings must be exposed to view, or readily accessible, and must be made by means of approved ground clamps, to which the wires must be soldered.
The screen is more completely Italian in treatment than any other work of the time, all the moldings being Classic; it is practically certain that the general design and most of the work must have been done by Italians.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moldings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
