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.
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 Vendôme; the spinal column.
A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; - contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy.
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 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 perpendicular line of figures.
The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids.
one of a series of articles written in a periodical, usually under the same title and at regular intervals; it may be written and signed by one or more authors, or may appear pseudonymously or anonymously, as an editorial column.
Rough; stern; angry.
A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl.
A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns.
The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.
To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.
To use the oar; as, to row well.
To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.
