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Paragraph :: Paragraph (n.) A brief composition complete in one typographical section or paragraph; an item, remark, or quotation comprised in a few lines forming one paragraph; as, a column of news paragraphs; an editorial paragraph..

Column :: Column (n.) A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper..

Interspinous :: Interspinous (a.) Between spines; esp., between the spinous processes of the vertebral column..

Bracket :: Bracket (n.) A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like..

Cimbia :: Cimbia (n.) A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it.

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

Calibre :: Calibre (n.) The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet or column..

Column :: Column (n.) A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from line, where they are side by side..

Intercrural :: Intercrural (a.) Between crura; -- applied especially to the interneural plates in the vertebral column of many cartilaginous fishes.

Apteral :: Apteral (a.) Without lateral columns; -- applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral..

Stylar :: Stylagalmaic (a.) Performing the office of columns; as, Atlantes and Caryatides are stylagalmaic figures or images..

Diastyle :: Diastyle (n.) See under Intercolumniation.

In Antis :: In antis () Between antae; -- said of a portico in classical style, where columns are set between two antae, forming the angles of the building. See Anta..

Module :: Module (n.) The size of some one part, as the diameter of semi-diameter of the base of a shaft, taken as a unit of measure by which the proportions of the other parts of the composition are regulated. Generally, for columns, the semi-diameter is taken, and divided into a certain number of parts, called minutes (see Minute), though often the diameter is taken, and any dimension is said to be so many modules and minutes in height, breadth, or projection..

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

Form :: Form (v. i.) To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column..

Meniscus :: Meniscus (n.) An interarticular synovial cartilage or membrane; esp., one of the intervertebral synovial disks in some parts of the vertebral column of birds..

Intercolumniation :: Intercolumniation (n.) The clear space between two columns, measured at the bottom of their shafts..

Flute :: Flute (v. t.) To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc..

Register :: Register (n.) The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet..

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