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Drum :: Drum (n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome..

Entablature :: Entablature (n.) The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column, Cornice..

Urostyle :: Urostyle (n.) A styliform process forming the posterior extremity of the vertebral column in some fishes and amphibians.

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

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..

Spinaceous :: Spina bifida () A congenital malformation in which the spinal column is cleft at its lower portion, and the membranes of the spinal cord project as an elastic swelling from the gap thus formed..

Core :: Core (n.) The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince..

Areosystyle :: Areosystyle (a. & n.) See Intercolumniation, and Araeosystyle..

Columnated :: Columnated (a.) Having columns; as, columnated temples..

Frustum :: Frustum (n.) One of the drums of the shaft of a column.

Capital :: Capital (n.) The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column..

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

Formation :: Formation (n.) The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc..

Eustyle :: Eustyle (n.) See Intercolumnlation.

Ciborium :: Ciborium (n.) A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar..

Epichordal :: Epichordal (a.) Upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column, which develops around it..

Subcommittee :: Subcolumnar (a.) Having an imperfect or interrupted columnar structure.

Column :: Column (n.) Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendome; the spinal column..

Vertebrated :: Vertebrated (a.) Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes..

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..

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