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Cyma

John Henry Parker

(Gr.), an undulated moulding, of which there are two kinds: cyma recta, which is hollow in the upper part. and round in the lower: and cyma reversa, called also the ogee, which is hollow in the lower part, and round in the upper. The term cyma, without an adjective, is always consedered to mean a cyma recta. It is usually the upper menber of Grecian and roman entablatures. excepting in the Tuscan and Doric orders, and in Cassical archtecture is very rarely used in any but a horizontal position, except over pediments. In the Norman style this moulding is not very often met with, but in Gothic architecture it is frquent, especially in doorways windows, archways, &c., but the proportions are generally very different from those given to it by the ancients, and it is called an ogee. An example of a qurked cyma is given beneath Ogee. (See also Column.)
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