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Slug :: Slug (n.) A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc..

Hexastyle :: Hexastyle (a.) Having six columns in front; -- said of a portico or temple.

Polystyle :: Polystyle (a.) Having many columns; -- said of a building, especially of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall..

Loin :: Loin (n.) That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef..

Column :: Column (n.) The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids..

Ilvaite :: Ilvaite (n.) A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals and columnar masses.

Manometer :: Manometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, or in bending a metallic or other spring so as to set in motion an index; a pressure gauge. See Pressure, and Illust. of Air pump..

Platband :: Platband (n.) A list or fillet between the flutings of a column.

Rachis :: Rachis (n.) The spine; the vertebral column.

Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..

Monotriglyph :: Monotriglyph (n.) A kind of intercolumniation in an entablature, in which only one triglyph and two metopes are introduced..

Ployment :: Ployment (n.) The act or movement of forming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deployment.

Flute :: Flute (v. i.) A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n..

Tetrastyle :: Tetrastyle (a.) Having four columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or colonnade..

Odontoblast :: Odontoblast (n.) One of the more or less columnar cells on the outer surface of the pulp of a tooth; an odontoplast. They are supposed to be connected with the formation of dentine.

Araeostyle :: Araeostyle (a. & n.) See Intercolumniation.

Ploy :: Ploy (v. i.) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.

Armature :: Armature (n.) Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc..

Cathetometer :: Cathetometer (n.) An instrument for the accurate measurement of small 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 is raised or depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the differences in vertical height are th

Subverter :: Subvertebral (a.) Situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column; situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal..

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