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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.

Between columns or pillars; as, the intercolumnar fibers of Poupart's ligament; an intercolumnar statue.

The clear space between two columns, measured at the bottom of their shafts. Gwilt.

A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.

Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.

Having an imperfect or interrupted columnar structure.

The putting of one order above another; also, an architectural work produced by this method; as, the putting of the Doric order in the ground story, Ionic above it, and Corinthian or Composite above this.

The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra. Dunglison.

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

ne aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column. Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. Milton. As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years. Locke.

eral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, horn…

Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.

A support or column on which stamens are raised. Gray.