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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..

Acantha :: Acantha (n.) The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra.

Hexapla :: Hexapla (sing.) A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century..

Rib :: Rib (n.) One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.

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

Row :: Row (n.) A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns..

Spouter :: Spout (v. t.) A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout..

Supraspinal :: Supraspinal (a.) Situated above the vertebral column.

Protocercal :: Protocercal (a.) Having a caudal fin extending around the end of the vertebral column, like that which is first formed in the embryo of fishes; diphycercal..

Gnomon :: Gnomon (n.) A style or column erected perpendicularly to the horizon, formerly used in astronomocal observations. Its principal use was to find the altitude of the sun by measuring the length of its shadow..

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

Witherite :: Witherite (n.) Barium carbonate occurring in white or gray six-sided twin crystals, and also in columnar or granular masses..

Guide :: Guide (v. t.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics..

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..

Chicken-breasted :: Chicken-breasted (a.) Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column..

Terete :: Terete (a.) Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants..

Prostyle :: Prostyle (a.) Having columns in front.

Peripteral :: Peripteral (a.) Having columns on all sides; -- said of an edifice. See Apteral.

Supportable :: Support (n.) That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reenforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery..

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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