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Shaped like a little column, or columella.

end by means of which the length of the lines, and consequently the width of the page or column, may be determined.

., 1 qr., 5 lb.; -- called also denominate number. -- Compound pier (Arch.), a clustered column. -- Compound quantity (Alg.), a quantity composed of two or more simple quantities or terms, connected by the sign + (plus) or - (minus). Thus, a + b - c, and bb - b, are compound quantities. -- Compound radical. (Chem.)…

The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince. A fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. Byron.

under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column.

The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.

A forked support; a crotch. The crotchets of their cot in columns rise. Dryden.

Relating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within. Weale.

pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column. Hence:

Having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico, temple, etc. -- n.

they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle.

The distance through the lower part of the shaft of a column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See Module. Conjugate diameters. See under Conjugate.

See under Intercolumniation.

A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Cereus Swartzii).

take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower. -- Diminished, or Diminishing, scale, a scale of gradation used in finding the different points for drawing the spiral curve of the volute. Gwilt. -- Diminishing rule (Arc…

aving the tail fin divided into two equal parts by the notochord, or end of the vertebral column; protocercal. See Protocercal.

Having a double row of columns on each on the flanks, as well as in front and rear; -- said of a temple.

junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint and edifice. Some half-ruined wall Disjointed and about to fall. Longfellow.

To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line. Farrow.

with interval, which is measured from right to left. "Distance between companies in close column is twelve yards." Farrow.