Columbæ (kolumbe)

pl. [NL., pl. of L. columba: see Columba1.] An order of birds of the pigeon kind, sometimes including the dodo and sand-grouse, but more frequently excluding them. They are altricial, psilopædic, monogamous birds, having the skull schizognathous and schizo rhinal, with prominent bas i pterygoid proce es, the angle of the mandible not recurved, the rostrum slender and straight, the sternum double-notched or notched and fenestrate, the humeral crest salient, two carotids, one pair of syringeal muscles, the cæca col i small or null, the gizzard muscular, the crop highly developed, the gall-bladder generally absent, the ambiens muscle normally present, the oil-gland nude, small or wanting, the plumage not after shafted, and the feet inse orial. The group thus defined is divided by different authors into from two to five families. columbarium (kol-um-bāʼri-um), n.; pl. colum n.; pl. baria (-a). [L., a dove-cote, a pigeon-house, hence later (LL.) L.) in senses like those of E. a hole near the axle pigeonhole, a putlog-hole, of a wheel, a hole in the side of a ve el for an wheel wheel, a oar, a rowlock, a place of sepulture; prop. neut. of columbarius, adj., pertaining to doves, colum ba, a pigeon, dove: see Columba1.] imbal.] 1. A dovecote; a pigeon-house. Also columbary.-2. In 1114 Rom. antiq., a place of sepulture for the ashes of the dead, consisting of arched and square headed rece es formed in walls, in which the Columbarium, near gate of St. Sebastian, Rome. cinerary urns were deposited: so named from the resemblance between these rece es and those formed in a dove-cote for the doves to build their nests in.-3. In arch., a hole left in a wall for the insertion of the end of a beam. Also called putlog - hole.-4. Eccles., the columba or dove-shaped pyx. See columba1, 3. columbaryt (kol'um-bā-ri), n. [L. columba rium: see columbarium.] Same as columbari um, 1. Sir T. Browne. columbate (kō-lum'bāt), n. [ Columbella mercat or i a. Colombella . columbellid (kol-um-bel'id), n. A gastropod of the family Col umbel lid a.