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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..

Diameter :: Diameter (n.) The distance through the lower part of the shaft of a column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See Module..

Fast :: Fast (n.) The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster..

Caryatid :: Caryatid (n.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster..

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

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

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..

Baluster :: Baluster (n.) A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade..

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

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

Re-formation :: Re-formation (n.) The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square..

Dildo :: Dildo (n.) A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Cereus Swartzii).

Carry :: Carry (v. t.) To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures..

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

Tetrapla :: Tetrapla (sing.) A Bible consisting of four different Greek versions arranged in four columns by Origen; hence, any version in four languages or four columns..

Scape :: Scape (n.) The shaft of a column.

Columelliform :: Columelliform (a.) Shaped like a little column, or columella..

Gorgerin :: Gorgerin (n.) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column..

Sacrovertebral :: Sacrovertebral (a.) Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle..

Verge :: Verge (n.) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft..

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