, in Architecture, is an ornament on the highest part of the cornice, or a moulding cut in the figure of a wave, half convex, and half concave.
DOVE-tail, in Carpentry, is a method of fastening boards or timbers together, by letting or indenting one piece into another, with a Dove-tail joint, or a joint in form of a Dove's tail.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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