Lédge'ment, n.

n. (Arch.) (a.) A string-course or horizontal suit of moldings, such as the base-moldings of a building. Oxf. Gloss. (b.) The development of the surface of a body stretched out on a plane, so that the dimensions of the different sides may be easily ascertained. Gwilt. [Written also ledgment, legement, and ligement].

To lay in ledgement, to delineate by laying out or developing upon paper the plan and other component surfaces, each in its proper relation to the plan, as if the whole had been constructed by folding together, and was now laid flat; as, to lay a house in ledgement.