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| Member — a moulding; as a cornice of five members, a base of three members. The term is also sometimes applied to the subordianate parts of a building.
| | Mitre — the line formed by the meeting of mouldings or other surfaces, which intersect or intercept each other at an angle.
| | Modillion — (Fr.), projecting brackets under the corona of the Corinthian and Compisite, and occasionally also of the Roman Ionic orders.
| | Module — (Lat.), a measure of proportion by which the parts of an order or of a building are regulated in Classical architecture; it has been generally considered as the diameter, or semi-diameter, of the lower end of the shaft of the column, but different architects have taken it form different parts and subdivided it in various ways. (See also Minute.)
| | Molding — A member of construction or decoration so treated as to introduce varieties of outline or contour in edges or surfaces, whether on projections or cavities, as on cornices, capitals, bases, etc.
| | Mould — or Mold, the model or pattern used by workmen, especially by masons, as a guide in working mouldings, and ornaments: it consists of a thin board or plate of metal cut ot represent the exact section of the mouldings, &c., to be worked from it.
| | Mutule — (Lat.), a projection block worked under the corona of the Doric cornice, in the same situation as the modillions in the Corinthian and Composite orders; it is often made to slope downward towards the most prominent part, and has usually a mumber of small guttae, or drops, worked on the underside.
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