, a kind of irregular column, round, and insulated, or detached from the wall. Pillars are not restricted to any rules, their parts and proportions being arbitrary; such for example as those that support Saracenic vaults, and other buildings, &c.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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