Difference between revisions of "Column"

<p> '''(1):''' (n.) A small army. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (n.) A perpendicular line of figures. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (n.) A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. </p> <p> '''(4):''' (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. </p> <p> '''(5):''' (n.) A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; - contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy. </p> <p> '''(6):''' (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. </p> <p> '''(7):''' (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. </p> <p> '''(8):''' (n.) The body formed by the union of the stamens in the [[Mallow]] family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids. </p>