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A columnlike axis in the capsule of mosses.

Shaped like a little column, or columella.

Anything resembling, in form or position, a column an architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc. ; the Column Vendôme; the spinal column.

Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column. Columnar epithelium (Anat.), epithelium in which the cells are priismatic in form, and set upright on the surface they cover. -- Columnar structure (Geol.), a structure consisting of more or less regular columns, usually six-sided,…

The state or quality of being columnar.

Having columns; as, columnated temples.

Having columns. Troas and Ilion's columned citadel. Tennyson.

The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure. Gwilt.

e of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90º from the former, and is called the solstitial colure. Thrice the equinoctial line He circled; four times crossed the car of night From pole to pole, traversing each c…

Any bird of the genus Colius and allied genera. They inhabit Africa.

A variety of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes; summer rape.

A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

Cold. [Obs.] "Poor Tom's acold." Shak.

Pertaining to acology.

Materia medica; the science of remedies.

See Acolythist.

An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from Aconitum lycoctonum. Eng. Cyc.

One who attends; an assistant. "With such chiefs, and with James and John as acolytes." Motley.

Same as Acolyte.

An acolyte. [Obs.]