ORDER, in architecture, is a system of the several
members, ornaments, and proportions of columns and
pilasters; or a regular arrangement of the projecting
parts of a building, especially the column, so as to
form one beautiful whole. See ARCHITECTURE, no 41,
&c.
ORDER is also used for a division, or class of any
thing: thus the tribe of animals called birds, is subdi-
vided into six orders. See ORNITHOLOGY, ZOOLOGY,
&c.