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Harmonics :: Harmonics (n.) Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones..

Channel :: Channel (n.) A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column..

Cincture :: Cincture (n.) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column..

Chase :: Chase (n.) A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.

Zoophoric :: Zoophoric (a.) Bearing or supporting the figure of an animal; as, a zoophoric column..

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..

Columnar :: Columnar (a.) Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column.

Pycnostyle :: Pycnostyle (a.) See under Intercolumniation.

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

Scamillus :: Scamillus (n.) A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without moldings, and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal..

Corona :: Corona (n.) The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column..

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..

Pseudo-dipteral :: Pseudo-dipteral (a.) Falsely or imperfectly dipteral, as a temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to two intercolumns and one column..

Van :: Van (n.) The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle..

Spinal :: Spinal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral..

Urosacral :: Urosacral (a.) Of or pertaining to both the caudal and sacral parts of the vertebral column; as, the urosacral vertebrae of birds..

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..

Column :: Column (n.) A perpendicular line of figures.

Zoisite :: Zoisite (n.) A grayish or whitish mineral occurring in orthorhombic, prismatic crystals, also in columnar masses. It is a silicate of alumina and lime, and is allied to epidote..

Socle :: Socle (n.) A plain block or plinth forming a low pedestal; any base; especially, the base of a statue, column, or the like. See Plinth..

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