Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cyma"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Cyma \Cy"ma\ (s[imac]"m[.a]) n. [NL., fr. Gr. ky^ma. See {Cyme}]
1. (Arch.) A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of
which is wavelike in form.

2. (Bot.) A cyme. See {Cyme}.

{Cyma recta}, or {Cyma}, a cyma, hollow in its upper part and
swelling below.

{Cyma reversa}, or {Ogee}, a cyma swelling out on the upper
part and hollow below.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

cyma
n : (classical architecture) a molding for a cornice; in profile
it is partly concave and partly convex [syn: {cymatium}]


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