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Producing or containing columbium.

A white, crystalline, bitter substance. See Calumbin.

Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored.

A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, A. vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; A. Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America.

The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes.

A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England.

A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam. Atomic weight 94.2. Symbol Cb or Nb. Now more commonly called niobium.

See Calumba.

An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens.

A columnlike axis in the capsules of mosses.

A term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear.

The upright pillar in the axis of most univalve shells.

The central pillar or axis of the calicles of certain corals.

Shaped like a little column, or columella.

A perpendicular line of figures.

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.

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.

A small army.

A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy.

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.