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An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less.…

Furnished with pilasters.

The interval or space between two pilasters. Elmes.

es of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

Without columns or pilasters. Weale.

s; classical; refined. Attic base (Arch.), a peculiar form of molded base for a column or pilaster, described by Vitruvius, applied under the Roman Empire to the Ionic and Corinthian and "Roman Doric" orders, and imitated by the architects of the Renaissance. -- Attic faith, inviolable faith. -- Attic purity, special…

The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.

arked by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster.

The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.

(Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n.

ns of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle. Fluting iron, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron. Knight. -- Fluting lathe, a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on balusters, table leg…

The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster. Gwilt.

A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like. Oxf. Gloss.

That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.