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Having the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster.

The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.

inal veins (Anat.), the veins in vertebrate embryos, which run each side of the vertebral column and returm the blood to the heart. They remain through life in some fishes. -- Cardinal virtues, preëminent virtues; among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. -- Cardinal winds, winds which blow fr…

To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.

(Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope i…

To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.

A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.

A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.

Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.

Of or pertaining to a choragus. Choragic monument, a building or column built by a victorious choragus for the reception and exhibition of the tripod which he received as a prize. Those of Lysicrates and Thrasyllus are still to be seen at Athens.

A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.

A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it. [Written also cimia.]

The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

used in controlling certain kinds of aëroplanes, and consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like.

the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column. Farrow.

dappled bells. Tennyson. Or from the forest falls the clustered snow. Thomson. Clustered column (Arch.), a column which is composed, or appears to be composed, of several columns collected together.

The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebræ more or less consolidated.

A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.

A columnlike axis in the capsule of mosses.