Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sima

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SI'MA. An architectural moulding, so termed from the character of its outline, which resembles the snub nose of a goat, being hollow in its upper surface but swelling below, as exhibited by the figure annexed (Simpulum/1.1). It is chiefly employed for the crowning or uppermost member of a cornice, being placed over the corona, and is now termed "sima," or "cyma recta," by English architects, and "ogee" by the workmen. Vitruv. iii. 5. 12.

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  Simpulum/1.1