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The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.

Furnished with an architrave. Cowper.

The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.

To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy. "Banded against his throne." Milton. Banded architrave, pier, shaft, etc. (Arch.), an architrave, pier, etc., of which the regular profile is interrupted by blocks or projections crossing it at right angles.

A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow.

r wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.

g, like a flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands which make up the architrave, in the Ionic order. See Illust. of Column.

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.

That part of the architrave which is over a door or window.

Cast; form; shape; character. Crowned with an architrave of antique mold. Pope.

, or group of moldings, the width of which much exceeds its projection, as the face of an architrave.

n general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column.

The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.

r of a building; especially, that used around openings, generally in the form of a molded architrave, to protect the plastering at those points. In ballast trim (Naut.), having only ballast on board. R. H. Dana, Jr. -- Trim of the masts (Naut.), their position in regard to the ship and to each other, as near or distan…

The part between the architrave and cornice; the frieze; -- so called from the figures of animals carved upon it.