Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Columen

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

COL'UMEN. The highest timber in the frame-work of a roof, forming the ridge piece to the whole. (Vitruv. iv. 2. 1.) See MATERIATIO and the illustration, on which it is marked b, b.