, in Architecture, a semicircular cavity or channel between the tores, in the bases of columns; and sometimes under the larmicr or drip, in the cornice of the Doric order. The workmen often call it the Casement, and it is also otherwise called the Trochilus.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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