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An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.

The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.

ed 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 member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form.

An instrument for making tracings of the outline or contour of profiles, moldings, etc.

A perambulator which records distances and delineates a profile, as of a road.

gauge. -- Gauge lathe, an automatic lathe for turning a round object having an irregular profile, as a baluster or chair round, to a templet or gauge. -- Gauge point, the diameter of a cylinder whose altitude is one inch, and contents equal to that of a unit of a given measure; -- a term used in gauging casks, etc.…

a templet by which the action of the cutter is guided or limited; -- used for forming the profile of an irregularly shaped piece; a profiling machine.

measurements, by means of a level, along a given line, as of a railroad, to ascertain the profile of the ground. -- Plumb level, one in which a horizontal bar is placed in true position by means of a plumb line, to which it is at right angles. -- Spirit level, one in which the adjustment to the horizon is shown by th…

s, the arch mold of a porch or doorway; the pier mold of a Gothic pier, meaning the whole profile, section, or combination of parts.

In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.

One who takes profiles.

Rising; -- applied to a bird in the attitude of rising; also, sometmes, to a bird in profile with wings addorsed.

or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.

A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.

A lage molding used in the bases of columns. Its profile is semicircular. See Illust. of Molding. Brande&C.

of valleys, resembling a broad U in cross profile.