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Having a caudal fin extending around the end of the vertebral column, like that which is first formed in the embryo of fishes; diphycercal.

Falsely or imperfectly dipteral, as a temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to two intercolumns and one column. -- n.

Falsely or imperfectly peripteral, as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end. -- n.

A massive subcolumnar variety of topaz.

See under Intercolumniation. -n.

The plate of bone which forms the posterior end of the vertebral column in most birds; the plowshare bone; the vomer. It is formed by the union of a number of the last caudal vertebræ, and supports the uropigium.

The spine; the vertebral column.

The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.

uivalent expression of simpler form. -- To reduce a square (Mil.), to reform the line or column from the square.

The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet.

urned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. See Illust. (12) of Column.

To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.

One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.

nce of unknown elements. TABLE OF THE PERIODIC LAW OF THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS (The vertical columns contain the periodic groups) Series1{ 2{ 3{ 4{ 5{ 6{ 7{ 8{ 9{ 10{ 11{ 12{ --------------------------------------------------------- -----|I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. | RH4 RH3 RH3 RH |R2O RO R3O3 RO2 R2O5 RO3 R2O7 RO…

adventures, of love, and the like. "Romances that been royal." Chaucer. Upon these three columns -- chivalry, gallantry, and religion -- repose the fictions of the Middle Ages, especially those known as romances. These, such as we now know them, and such as display the characteristics above mentioned, were originally…

in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc.

anged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns. And there were windows in three rows. 1 Kings vii. 4. The bright seraphim in burning row. Milton. Row culture (Agric.), the practice of cultivating crops in drills. -- Row of points (Geom.), the points on a line, infinit…

l (usually brass) of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.

Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.

That part of the vertebral column which is directly connected with, or forms a part of, the pelvis.