, Crown or Crowning, in Architecture, the flat and most advanced part of the cornice; so called, because it crowns the cornice and entablature: by the workmen it is called the drip, as serving by its projecture to screen the rest of the building from the rain.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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