in Architecture and Sculpture, an orna- ment representing a scroll of paper. It is usually a flat member, with wavings to represent some inscription, de- vice, cipher, or ornament of armoury. Cartouches are, in architecture, much the same as modillions; only the latter are set under the cornice in wainscoting, and the former are set under the cornice at the eaves of a house.

in the military art, signifies a case of wood, about three inches thick at the bottom, girt with marline, and containing about four hundred musket balls, besides six or eight balls of iron of a pound weight, to be fired out of a habot, for the defence of a pass, or the like.

A cartouche is sometimes made of a globular form, and filled with a ball of a pound weight; sometimes it is made for the guns, being filled with balls of half or quarter a pound weight, according to the nature of the gun, tied in the form of a bunch of grapes, on a tenon of wood, and coated over. These were used instead of partridge-shot.

in hieroglyphics, is the term applied by the French savans to the elliptical ring or oval which in- cludes every proper name in a monumental inscription. In the hieratic and demotic, enchorial, or civil forms of writ- ing, the cartouche or oval degenerates into rude brackets.