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An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier ), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from

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An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier ), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less.

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• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• ANGLICIZE
  To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• SHAFTING
  Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• ANGLE
  A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses." Chaucer. 5. Etym: (more info) 1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. To search the tenderest angles
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• COLUMN
  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. 2. Anything resembling, in form or position, a column an architecture;
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• CORRESPOND
  1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• ANGLO-CATHOLIC
  Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.
• ARCHITECTURAL
  Of or pertaining to the art of building; conformed to the rules of architecture. -- Ar`chi*tec"tur*al*ly, adv.
• CORRESPONDINGLY
  In a corresponding manner; conformably.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• RIGHT-ANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• CAPITALIZATION
  The act or process of capitalizing.
• SPANGLY
  Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light.
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• WAY SHAFT
  A rock shaft.
• UNTANGLE
  To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior.
• BRANGLE
  A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift. (more info) brangle to shake, menace; probably a variant of wrangle, confused
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• QUINQUEANGLED
  Having five angles; quinquangular.
• TRIANGLE
  A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles. Note: A triangle is either plane, spherical, or curvilinear, according as its sides are straight lines, or arcs of great circles of a sphere, or any curved lines whatever. A
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.