in antiquity, a thin fash which the Roman women wrapped round their bodies, next to the skin, in order to make them slender. Something of this sort seems also to have been in use amongst the Grecian ladies, if we can depend upon the representation given by Terence, Eun. Act. 2. Sc. 4.

Haud similis est virginiwm nostrorum, quis matres student Demifis humeris effe—vide Bo corpore, ut gracilis sint.

architecture, signifies any flat member having a considerable breadth and but a small projection, as the band of an architrave, larmier, &c. In brick-buildings, the jutting out of the bricks beyond the windows in the several stories except the highest are called fascias, or fasciae.

Fascia Lata, in anatomy, a muscle of the leg, called also semi membranofus. See Anatomy, Table of the Muscles.

Fasciae, in astronomy, the belts seen on the disk of the superior planets Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. See Astronomy passim.