Column

kol′um, n. a long, round body, used to support or adorn a building: any upright body or ma like a column: a body of troops drawn up in deep files: a perpendicular row of lines in a book.— ns. Col′ūmel , a small column; Colūmel′la , the central axis of a spiral univalve; the auditory o icle of the amphibian ear: the central axis of the spore-case of mo es: in the opening of fruits, what remains in the centre after the carpels have split away.— adjs. Colum′nal , Colum′nar , formed in columns.— n. Column a′rity .— adjs. Col′umned , Colum′niāted , Colum′nated , having columns.— n. Colum′niātion . [L. columen , column a , akin to cels us , high; Gr. kolōnē , a hill.]