column rule

Printing: The name given to pieces of bra of different thickne es, made type-high, and used to separate columns of type. côl-um-nạ (pl. col-um-næ), s. [Lat.] 1. Arch .: A column (q. v.). 2. Anat ., & c .: Applied to various parts of the body, which more or le resemble a column in shape or appearance. [COLUMN, A. II. 2, Anat .] col-um-næ, s. pl. [Lat.=columns, pl. of column a (q. v.).] Anat .: Various columnar or pillar-shaped structures. Thus there are Columncæ Bertini, Columnæ carneæ, Columnæ recti , and Columnæ rugarum . columnæ carneæ, s . pl . [Lat.=fleshy columns.] Anat .: Certain muscular bundles connected with the ventricles of the heart. (Quain.) ".. end as one sort of column a carnea in the ven tricles by union with the chorde tend i new." Todd & Bow man: Physiol. Anat., vol. i., ch. vii., p. 165. 985 *col-um-nal, a . [Eng. column ; -al .] Columnar, like a column. "No crag overhanging, nor columnal rock." Southey: Thalaba, xii. 11. col-ŭm'-nar, a. [Lat. columnar is, from column a.] 1. Ord. Lang.: Shaped or formed like a column, formed in columns. "White columnar spar, out of a stone-pit." -Woodward . On Fo ils. 2. Bot ., .: Resembling a column in form, as the combined stamens of most Malvacese. *col-um-när-i-an, a. [Lat. columnar i (s), and Eng. suff. -an .] The same as COLUMNAR (q. v.). †col-um-nar-ish, a . [Eng. columnar; -ish.] Shaped somewhat like a column.