rare. [ad. L. columella (see next). Cf. F. columelle (‘mot didactique’ Littré).]
1. A small column or pillar. Also attrib.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, II. 279. A Majestick Western Front of Columel work.
1829. Landor, Imag. Conv. (1846), II. 255/2. No man can anywhere enter his hall or portico, and see the countenances of his ancestors from their marble columels, without a commemorative and grateful sense of obligation to us.
† 2. A column of writing or printing. Obs.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies (1840), I. xv. 64. We have, in a distinct columel, assigned the places of their habitation.
† 3. Anat.
1610. Markham, Masterpiece, II. iii. 217. The great columell or flat bone of the hippes or huckell.
† 4. Bot. = COLUMELLA 3 a. Obs.
1828. Webster cites Martyn.
