SCOTIA (Gr. o'Karca,

See also:

• SHADOW (0. Eng. Schadewe, sceadu; a form of " shade "; connected with Gr. 6-Ore's, darkness)

shadow or darkness)  , in architecture, a concave moulding most commonly used in bases, which projects a deep shadow on itself, and is thereby a most effective moulding under the eye, as in a base . (See MOULDING.) In the former case the derivation seems to be from the O . Fr . Escoute, and that from the Latin ausculiare, but in the latter from the Dutch Koet, which is said to be of Celtic extraction—cwtiar . The Fr. macreuse, possibly from Lat. mater, indicating a bird that may be eaten in Lent or on the fast days of the Roman Church, is of double signification, meaning in the south of France a coot and in the north a scoter . By the wild-fowlers of parts of North America scoters are commonly called coots .