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Webster 1913 Edition

(k?r′n?s)

Noun.

[F.

corniche

, It.

cornice

, LL.

coronix

cornix

, fr. L.

coronis

a curved line, a flourish with the pen at the end of a book or chapter, Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK]; akin to L.

corona

crown. sEE

, and cf.

(Arch.)

Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed;

as, the

cornice

of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house

Gwilt.

Cornice ring

the ring on a cannon next behind the muzzle ring.

, CORNETER, CORNICE,

Noun.

One who blows a cornet.

In architecture, the uppermost member of the entablature of a column, or the highest projecture; that which crowns and order.

A little projecture in joinery or masonry; as the cornice of a chimney.

Cornice-ring of a cannon, is the ring next from the muzzle-ring backward.