in architecture, was used by the ancients for the base of a column, and sometimes for the atragal or tore. But among the moderns, it denotes a steeple that continually diminishes as it ascends, whether conically or pyramidally.

in geography, an imperial city of Germany, capital of a bishopric of the same name, and situated in the palatinate of the Rhine, fifteen miles south-west of Heidelberg: E. long. 8° 17', N. lat. 49° 16'.