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Cojuror

COJUROR, noun One who swears to anothers credibility.

Coke

COKE, noun Fossil coal charred, or deprived of its bitumen, sulphur or other extraneous or volatile matter by fire, and thus prepared for exciting intense heat.

Colander

COLANDER, noun A vessel with a bottom perforated with little holes for straining liquors. In America, this name is given, I believe, exclusively to a vessel of tin, or other metal. In Great Britain, the name is given to vessels, like sieves, made with hair, osiers or twigs.

Colation

COLATION, noun The act of straining, or purifying liquor, by passing it through a perforated vessel.

Colature

COLATURE, noun The act of straining; the matter strained.

Colbertine

COLBERTINE, noun A kind of lace worn by women.

Colcothar

COLCOTHAR, noun The brown red oxyd of iron which remains after the distillation of the acid from sulphate of iron; used for polishing glass and other substances. It is called by artists crocus, or crocus martis.

The sulphate of iron is called colcothar or chalcite, when the calcination has been carried so far as to drive off a considerable part of the acid.

Cold

COLD, adjective

1. Not warm or hot; gelid, frigid; a relative term. A substance is cold to the touch, when it is less warm then the body, and when in contact, the heat of the body passes from the body to the substance; as cold air; a cold stone; cold water. It denotes a greater degree of the quality than cool.

2. Having the sensation of cold; chill; shivering, or inclined to shiver; as, I am cold

3. Having cold qualities; as a cold plant.

4. Frigid; wanting passion, zeal ro ardor; indifferent; unconcerned; not animated, or easily excited into action; as a cold spectator; a cold Christian; a cold lover, or friend; a cold temper.

Thou art neither cold nor hot. Revelation 3:15.

5. Not moving; unaffecting; not animated; not able to excite feeling; spiritless; as a cold discourse; a cold jest.

6. Reserved; coy; not affectionate, cordial or friendly; indicating indifference; as a cold look; a cold return of civilities; a cold reception.

7. Not heated by sensual desire.

8. Not hasty; not violent.

9. Not affecting the scent strongly.

10. Not having the scent strongly affected.

COLD, noun

1. The sensation produced in animal bodies by the escape of heat, and the consequent contraction of the fine vessels. Also, the cause of that sensation. Heat expands the vessels, and cold contracts them; and the transition from an expanded to a contracted state is accompanied with a sensation to which, as well as to the cause of it, we give the denomination of cold Hence cold is a privation of heat, or the cause of it.

2. A shivering; the effect of the contraction of the fine vessels of the body; chilliness, or chillness.

3. A disease; indisposition occasioned by cold; catarrh.

Cold-Blooded

COLD-BLOODED, adjective

1. Having cold blood.

2. Without sensibility, or feeling.

Cold-Finch

COLD-FINCH, noun A species of Motacilla, a bird frequenting the west of England, with the head and back of a brownish gray, the belly white, and the quill feathers and tail black.

Cold-Hearted

COLD-HEARTED, adjective Wanting passion or feeling; indifferent.

Cold-Heartedness

COLD-HEARTEDNESS, noun Want of feeling or sensibility.

Cold-Shot

COLD-SHOT, adjective Brittle when cold, as a metal.

Coldly

COLDLY, adverb In a cold manner; without warmth; without concern; without ardor or animation; without apparent passion, emotion or feeling; with indifference or negligence; as, to answer one coldly; a proposition is coldly received.

Coldness

COLDNESS, noun

1. Want of heat; as the coldness or water or air. When the heat or temperature of any substance is less than that of the animal body exposed to it, that state or temperature is called coldness

2. Unconcern; indifference; a frigid state of temper; want of ardor, zeal, emotion, animation, or spirit; negligence; as, to receive an answer with coldness; to listen with coldness

3. Want of apparent affection, or kindness; as, to receive a friend with coldness

4. Coyness; reserve; indifference; as, to receive addresses with coldness

5. Want of sensual desire; frigidity; chastity.

Cole

COLE, noun The general name of all sorts of cabbage or brassica; but we generally use it in its compounds, cole-wort, cauliflower, etc.

Cole-Mouse

COLE-MOUSE, noun [See Coal-mouse.]

Cole-Perch

COLE-PERCH, noun A small fish, less than the common perch.

Cole-Seed

COLE-SEED, noun

1. The seed of the navew, napus sativa, or long-rooted, narrow-leafed rapa; reckoned a species of brassica or cabbage.

2. Cabbage seed.

Cole-Wort

COLE-WORT, noun A particular species of cole, brassica, or cabbage.

Coleopter

COLEOPTER, TERA, noun The coleopters, in Linnes system of entomology, are an order of insects, having crustaceous elytra or shells, which shut and form a longitudinal suture along the back, as the beetle.

Coleopteral

COLEOPTERAL, adjective Having wings covered with a case or sheath, which shuts as above.

Colic

COLIC, noun In general, a severe pain in the bowels, of which there are several varieties; as bilious colic hysteric colic nervous colic and many others.

Colical

COLICAL, adjective Affecting the bowels.

Colin

COLIN, noun A bird of the partridge kind, found in America and the West Indies, called.

Coll

COLL, verb transitive To embrace.

Collapse

COLLAPSE, verb intransitive To fall together, as the two sides of a vessel; to close by falling together; as, the fine canals or vessels of the body collapse in old age.

Collapsed

COLLAPSED, participle passive Fallen together; closed.

Collapsion

COLLAPSION, noun A state of falling together; a state of vessels closed.

Collar

COLLAR, noun

1. Something worn round the neck, as a ring of metal, or a chain. The knights of several orders wear a chain of gold, enameled, and sometimes set with ciphers or other devices, to which the badge of the order is appended.

2. The part of a garment which surrounds the neck. Job 30:18.

3. A part of a harness for the neck of a horse or other beast, used in draught.

4. Among seamen, the upper part of a stay; also, a rope in form of a wreath to which a stay is confined.

To slip the collar is to escape or get free; to disentangle ones self from difficulty, labor, or engagement.

A collar of brawn, is the quantity bound up in one parcel.

COLLAR, verb transitive

1. To seize by the collar

2. To put a collar on.

To collar beef or other meat, is to roll it up and bind it close with a string.

Collar-Bone

COLLAR-BONE, noun The clavicle.

Collarage

COLLARAGE, noun A tax or fine laid for the collars of wine-drawing horses.

Collared

COLLARED, participle passive

1. Seized by the collar.

2. Having a collar on the neck.

Collate

COLLATE, verb transitive Literally, to bring or lay together. Hence,

1. To lay together and compare, by examining the points in which two or more things of a similar kind agree or disagree; applied particularly to manuscripts and books; as, to collate copies of the Hebrew Scriptures.

2. To confer or bestow a benefice on a clergyman, by a bishop who has it in his own gift or patronage; or more strictly, to present and institute a clergyman in a benefice, when the same person is both the ordinary and the patron; followed by to.

If the patron neglects to present, the bishop may collate his clerk to the church.

3. To bestow or confer; but now seldom used, except as in the second definition.

COLLATE, verb intransitive To place in a benefice, as by a bishop.

If the bishop neglects to collate within six months, the right to do it devolves on the archbishop.

Collated

COLLATED, participle passive Laid together and compared; examined by comparing; presented and instituted, as a clergyman, to a benefice.

Collateral

COLLATERAL, adjective

1. Being by the side, side by side, on the side, or side to side.

In his bright radiance and collateral light

Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.

COLLATERAL pressure is pressure on the side. So we say, collateral circumstances, circumstances which accompany a principal event.

2. In genealogy, descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not one from the other; as distinguished from lineal. Lineal descendants proceed one from another in a direct line; collateral relations spring from a common ancestor, but from different branches of that common stirps or stock. Thus the children of brothers are collateral relations, having different fathers, but a common grandfather.

3. collateral security, is security for the performance of covenants or the payment of money, besides the principal security.

4. Running parallel.

5. Diffused on either side; springing from relations; as, collateral love.

6. Not direct, or immediate.

If by direct or collateral hand.

7. Concurrent; as, collateral strength.

COLLATERAL, noun A collateral relation or kinsman.

Collaterally

COLLATERALLY, adverb

1. Side by side; or by the side.

2. Indirectly.

3. In collateral relation; not in a direct line; not lineally.

Collateralness

COLLATERALNESS, noun The state of being collateral.

Collating

COLLATING, participle present tense Comparing; presenting and instituting.

Collation

COLLATION, noun

1. The act of bringing or laying together, and comparing; a comparison of one copy or thing of a like kind with another.

2. The act of conferring or bestowing; a gift.

3. In the canon law, the presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift or patronage. collation includes both presentation and institution. When the patron of a church is not a bishop, he presents his clerk for admission, and the bishop institutes him; but if a bishop is the patron, his presentation and institution are one act and are called collation

4. In common law, the presentation of a copy to its original, and a comparison made by examination, to ascertain its conformity; also, the report of the act made by the proper officers.

5. In Scots law, the right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.

6. A repast between full meals; as a cold collation

COLLATION of seals, denotes one seal set on the same label, on the reverse of another.

Collative

COLLATIVE, adjective Advowsons are presentative, collative or donative. An advowson collative is where the bishop and patron are one and the same person; in which case the bishop cannot present to himself, but he does, by one act of collation or conferring the benefice, the whole that is done, in common cases, by both presentation and institution.

Collator

COLLATOR, noun

1. One who collates or compares manuscripts or copies of books.

2. One who collates to a benefice, as when the ordinary and patron are the same person.

Collaud

COLLAUD, verb transitive To unite in praising.

Colleague

COLLEAGUE, noun A partner or associate in the same office, employment or commission, civil or ecclesiastical.

It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures.

COLLEAGUE, verb transitive To unite with in the same office.

Colleagued

COLLEAGUED, participle passive United as an associate in the same office.

Colleagueship

COLLEAGUESHIP, noun Partnership in office.

Collect

COLLECT, verb transitive

1. To gather, as separate persons or things, into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; as, to collect men into an army; to collect ideas; to collect particulars into one sum.

2. To gain by observation or information.

From all that can be collected, the public peace will not soon be interrupted.

3. To gather from premises; to infer as a consequence.

Which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.

4. To gather money or revenue from debtors; to demand and receive; as, to collect taxes; to collect the customs; to collect accounts, or debts.

5. To gather, as crops; to reap, mow or pick, and secure in proper repositories; as, to collect hay, corn or fruits.

6. To draw together; to bring into united action; as, to collect all the strength, or all the powers of the mind.

7. To obtain from contribution.

To collect ones self, is to recover from surprise, or a disconcerted state; to gain command over the thoughts, when dispersed; over the passions, when tumultuous; or the mind, when dismayed.

COLLECT, verb intransitive To run together; to accumulate; as, pus collects in an abscess; sand or snow collects in banks.

COLLECT, noun

1. A short comprehensive prayer; a prayer adapted to a particular day or occasion.

2. A collection or gathering of money.

Collectaneous

COLLECTANEOUS, adjective Gathered; collected.

Collected

COLLECTED, participle passive

1. Gathered; assembled; congregated; drawn together.

2. Recovered from surprise or dismay; not disconcerted; cool; firm; prepared.

Collectedly

COLLECTEDLY, adverb In one view; together; in one body.

Collectedness

COLLECTEDNESS, noun A collected state of the mind; recovery from surprise.

Collectible

COLLECTIBLE, adjective

1. That may be collected or gathered; that may be inferred.

2. That may be gathered or recovered; as, the debts or taxes are or are not collectible

Collecting

COLLECTING, participle present tense Gathering; drawing together; assembling.

Collection

COLLECTION, noun

1. The act of gathering, or assembling.

2. The body formed by gathering; an assemblage, or assembly; a crowd; as a collection of men.

3. A contribution; a sum collected for a charitable purpose.

Now concerning the collection for the saints. 1 Corinthians 16:1.

4. A gathering, as of matter in an abscess.

5. The act of deducing consequences; reasoning; inference.

6. A corollary; a consectary; a deduction from premises; consequence.

7. A book compiled from other books, by the putting together of parts; a compilation; as a collection of essays or sermons.

Collective

COLLECTIVE, adjective

1. Formed by gathering; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated, or aggregated.

2. Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.

3. In grammar, expressing an number or multitude united; as a collective noun or name, which, though in the singular number itself, denotes more than one; as, company, army, troop, assembly.

Collectively

COLLECTIVELY, adverb In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly; in a state of combination; as the citizens of a state collectively considered.

Collectiveness

COLLECTIVENESS, noun A state of union; mass.

Collector

COLLECTOR, noun

1. One who collects or gathers things which are scattered or separate.

2. A compiler; one who gathers and puts together parts of books, or scattered pieces, in one book.

3. In botany, one who gathers plants, without studying botany as a science.

4. An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes or toll.

5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, who is appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.

Collectorship

COLLECTORSHIP, noun

1. The office of a collector of customs or taxes.

2. The jurisdiction of a collector.

Collegatary

COLLEGATARY, noun In the civil law, a person who has a legacy left to him in common with one or more other persons.

College

COLLEGE, noun In its primary sense, a collection, or assembly. Hence,

1. In a general sense, a collection, assemblage or society of men, invested with certain powers and rights, performing certain duties, or engaged in some common employment, or pursuit.

2.In a particular sense, an assembly for a political or ecclesiastical purpose as the college of Electors or their deputies at the diet in Ratisbon. So also, the college of princes, or their deputies; the college of cities, or deputies of the Imperial cities; the college of Cardinals, or sacred college In Russia, the denomination, college is given to councils of state, courts or assemblies of men intrusted with the administration of the government, and called Imperial college; the college of foreign affairs; the college of war; the admiralty college; the college of justice; the college of commerce; the medical college

In Great Britain and the United States of America, a society of physicians is called a college So also there are colleges of surgeons; and in Britain, a college of philosophy, a college of heralds, a college of justice, etc. Colleges of these kinds are usually incorporated or established by the supreme power of the state.

3. An edifice appropriated to the use of students, who are acquiring the languages and sciences.

4. The society of persons engaged in the pursuits of literature, including the officers and students. Societies of this kind are incorporated and endowed with revenues.

5. In foreign universities, a public lecture.

College-Like

COLLEGE-LIKE, noun Regulated after the manner of a college.

Collegial

COLLEGIAL, adjective Relating to a college; belonging to a college; having the properties of a college.

Collegiate

COLLEGIATE, adjective

1. Pertaining to a college; as collegiate studies.

2. Containing a college; instituted after the manner of a college; as a collegiate society.

3. A collegiate church is one that has no bishops see; but has the ancient retinue of a bishop, canons and prebends. Of these some are of royal, others of ecclesiastical foundation; and each is regulated, in matters of divine service, as a cathedral. Some of these were anciently abbeys which have been secularized.

COLLEGIATE, noun The member of a college.

Collet

COLLET, noun

1. Among jewelers, the horizontal face or plane at the bottom of brilliants; or the part of a ring in which the stone is set.

2. In glass-making, that part of glass vessels which sticks to the iron instrument used in taking the substance from the melting-pot.

3. Anciently, a band or collar.

4. A term used by turners.

Colletic

COLLETIC, adjective Having the property of gluing; agglutinant.

COLLETIC, noun An agglutinant.

Collide

COLLIDE, verb intransitive To strike or dash against each other.

Collier

COLLIER, noun

1. A digger of coal; one who works in a coal-mine.

2. A coal-merchant or dealer in coal.

3. A coasting vessel employed in the coal trade, or in transporting coal from the ports where it is received from the mines, to the ports where it is purchased for consumption.

Colliery

COLLIERY, noun

1. The place where coal is dug.

2. The coal trade.

Colliflower

COLLIFLOWER. [See Cauliflower.]

Colligate

COLLIGATE, verb transitive To tie or bind together.

The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows.

Colligated

COLLIGATED, participle passive Tied or bound together.

Colligating

COLLIGATING, participle present tense Binding together.

Colligation

COLLIGATION, noun A binding together.

Collimation

COLLIMATION, noun The act of aiming at a mark; aim; the act of leveling, or of directing the sight to a fixed object.

Collineation

COLLINEATION, noun The act of aiming, or directing in a line to a fixed object.

Colling

COLLING, noun An embrace; dalliance.

Colliquable

COLLIQUABLE, adjective That may be liquefied, or melted; liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid.

Colliquament

COLLIQUAMENT, noun

1. The substance formed by melting; that which is melted.

2. Technically, the fetal part of an egg; the transparent fluid in an egg, containing the first rudiments of the chick.

3. The first rudiments of an embryo in generation.

Colliquant

COLLIQUANT, adjective That has the power of dissolving or melting.

Colliquate

COLLIQUATE, verb intransitive To melt; to dissolve; to change from solid to fluid; to become liquid.

COLLIQUATE, verb transitive To melt or dissolve.

Colliquated

COLLIQUATED, participle passive Melted; dissolved; turned from a solid to a fluid substance.

Colliquating

COLLIQUATING, participle present tense Melting; dissolving.

Colliquation

COLLIQUATION, noun

1. The act of melting.

2. A dissolving, flowing or wasting; applied to the blood, when it does not readily coagulate, and to the solid parts, when they waste away by excessive secretion, occasioning fluxes and profuse, clammy sweats.

Colliquative

COLLIQUATIVE, adjective Melting; dissolving; appropriately indicating a morbid discharge of the animal fluids; as a colliquative fever, which is accompanied with diarrhoea, or profuse sweats; a colliquative sweat is a profuse clammy sweat.

Colliquefaction

COLLIQUEFACTION, noun A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.

Collision

COLLISION, noun s as z.

1. The act of striking together; a striking together of two hard bodies.

2. The state of being struck together; a clashing. Hence,

3. Opposition; interference; as a collision of interests or of parties.

4. A running against each other, as ships at sea.

Collocate

COLLOCATE, verb transitive To set or place; to set; to station.

COLLOCATE, adjective Set; placed.

Collocated

COLLOCATED, participle passive Placed.

Collocating

COLLOCATING, participle present tense Setting; placing.

Collocation

COLLOCATION, noun

1. A setting; the act of placing; disposition in place.

2. The state of being placed, or placed with something else.

Collocution

COLLOCUTION, noun A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse.

Collocutor

COLLOCUTOR, noun One of the speakers in a dialogue.

Collogue

COLLOGUE, verb transitive To wheedle.

Collop

COLLOP, noun

1. A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh.

2. In burlesque, a child.

In Job 15:27, it seems to have the sense of a thick piece or fleshy lump. He maketh collops of fat on his flanks. This is the sense of the word in noun England.

Colloquial

COLLOQUIAL, adjective [See Colloquy.] Pertaining to common conversation, or to mutual discourse; as colloquial language; a colloquial phrase.

Colloquist

COLLOQUIST, noun A speaker in a dialogue.

Colloquy

COLLOQUY, noun Conversation; mutual discourse of two or more; conference; dialogue.

Collow

COLLOW. [See Colly.]

Collucatation

COLLUCATATION, noun A struggling to resist; contest; resistance; opposition; contrariety.

Colluctancy

COLLUCTANCY, noun A struggling to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature.

Collude

COLLUDE, verb intransitive To play into the hand of each other; to conspire in a fraud; to act in concert.

Colluder

COLLUDER, noun One who conspires in a fraud.

Colluding

COLLUDING, participle present tense Conspiring with another in a fraud.

COLLUDING, noun A trick; collusion.

Collusion

COLLUSION, noun s as z.

1. In law, a deceitful agreement or compact between two or more persons, for the one party to bring an action against the other, for some evil purpose, as to defraud a third person of his right.

A secret understanding between two parties, who plead or proceed fraudulently against each other, to the prejudice of a third person.

2. In general, a secret agreement for a fraudulent purpose.

Collusive

COLLUSIVE, adjective Fraudulently concerted between two or more; as a collusive agreement.

Collusively

COLLUSIVELY, adverb By collusion; by secret agreement to defraud.

Collusiveness

COLLUSIVENESS, noun The quality of being collusive.

Collusory

COLLUSORY, adjective Carrying on a fraud by a secret concert; containing collusion.

Colly

COLLY,

COLLOW, noun The black grime or soot of coal or burnt wood.

COLLY, verb transitive To make foul; to grime with the smut of coal.

Collyrite

COLLYRITE, noun A variety of clay, of a white color, with shades of gray, red, or yellow.

Collyrium

COLLYRIUM, noun Eye-salve; eye-wash; a topical remedy for disorders of the eyes.

Colmar

COLMAR, noun A sort of pear.

Colocynth

COLOCYNTH, noun The coloquintida, or bitter apple of the shops, a kind of gourd, from Aleppo and from Crete. It contains a bitter pulp, which is a drastic purge.

Cologne-Earth

COLOGNE-EARTH, noun A kind of light bastard ocher, of a deep brown color, not a pure native fossil, but containing more vegetable than mineral matter; supposed to be the remains of wood long buried in the earth.

It is an earthy variety of lignite or brown coal.

Colombo

COLOMBO, noun A root from colombo in Ceylon. Its smell is aromatic, and its taste pungent and bitter. It is much esteemed as a tonic in dyspeptic and bilious diseases.

Colon

COLON, noun

1. In anatomy, the largest of the intestines, or rather the largest division of the intestinal canal; beginning at the ceecum, and ascending by the right kidney, it passes under the hollow part of the liver, and the bottom of the stomach, to the spleen; thence descending by the left kidney, it passes, in the form of an S, to the upper part of the os sacrum, where, from its straight course, the canal takes the name of rectum.

2. In grammar, a point or character formed thus [: ], used to mark a pause, greater than that of a semicolon, but less than that of a period; or rather it is used when the sense of the division of a period is complete, so as to admit a full point; but something is added by way of illustration, or the description is continued by an additional remark, without a necessary dependence on the foregoing members of the sentence. Thus,

A brute arrives at a point of perfection he can never pass: in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of.

The colon is often used before an address, quotation or example. Mr. Gray was followed by Mr. Erskine, who spoke thus: I rise to second the motion of my honorable friend. But the propriety of this depends on the pause, and this depends on the form of introducing the quotation; for after say, said, or a like word, the colon is not used, and seems to be improper. Thus in our version of the scriptures, such members are almost invariably followed by a comma. But Jesus said to them, Ye know not what ye ask.

The use of the colon is not uniform; nor is it easily defined and reduced to rules. Indeed the use of it might be dispensed with without much inconvenience.

Colonel

COLONEL, noun The chief commander of a regiment of troops, whether infantry or cavalry. He ranks next below a brigadier-general. In England, colonel-lieutenant is the commander of a regiment of guards, of which the king, prince or other person of eminence is colonel Lieutenant-colonel is the second officer in a regiment, and commands it in the absence of the colonel

Colonelship

COLONELSHIP, noun The office, rank or commission of a colonel.

Colonial

COLONIAL, adjective [See Colony.] Pertaining to a colony; as colonial government; colonial rights.

Colonist

COLONIST, noun [See Colony.] An inhabitant of a colony.

Colonization

COLONIZATION, noun The act of colonizing, or state of being colonized.

Colonize

COLONIZE, verb transitive

1. To plant or establish a colony in; to plant or settle a number of the subjects of a kingdom or state in a remote country, for the purpose of cultivation, commerce or defense, and for permanent residence.

The Greeks colonized the South of Italy and of France.

2. To migrate and settle in, as inhabitants. English Puritans colonized New England.

Colonized

COLONIZED, participle passive Settle or planted with a colony.

Colonizing

COLONIZING, participle present tense Planting with a colony.

COLONIZING, noun The act of establishing a colony.

This state paper has been adopted as the basis of all her later colonizings.

Colonnade

COLONNADE, noun

1. In architecture, a peristyle of a circular figure, or a series of columns, disposed in a circle, and insulated within side.

2. Any series of range of columns.

A polystyle colonnade is a range of columns too great to be taken in by the eye at a single view; as that of the palace of St. Peter at Rome, consisting of 284 columns of the Doric order.

Colony

COLONY, noun

1. A company or body of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country to cultivate and inhabit it, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as the British colonies in America or the Indies; the Spanish colonies in South America. When such settlements cease to be subject to the parent state, they are no longer denominated colonies.

The first settles of New England were the best of Englishmen, well educated, devout Christians, and zealous lovers of liberty. There was never a colony formed of better materials.

2. The country planted or colonized; a plantation; also, the body of inhabitants in a territory colonized, including the descendants of the first planters. The people, though born in the territory, retain the name of colonists, till they cease to be subjects of the parent state.

3. A collection of animals; as colonies of shell-fish.

Colophon

COLOPHON, noun The conclusion of a book, formerly containing the place or year, or both, of its publication.

Colophonite

COLOPHONITE, noun A variety of garnet, of a reddish yellow or brown color, occurring in small amorphous granular masses.

Colophony

COLOPHONY, noun In pharmacy, black resin or turpentine boiled in water and dried; or the residuum, after distillation of the etherial oil of turpentine, being further urged by a more intense and long continued fire. It is so named from Colophon in Ionia, whence the best was formerly brought.

Coloquintida

COLOQUINTIDA, noun The colocynth or bitter apple, the fruit of a plant of the genus Cucumis, a native of Syria and of Crete. It is of the size of a large orange, containing a pulp which is violently purgative, but sometimes useful as a medicine.

Color

COLOR, noun

1. In physics, a property inherent in light, which, by a difference in the rays and the laws of refraction, or some other cause, gives to bodies particular appearances to the eye. The principal colors are red, orange, yellow, green blue, indigo and violet. White is not properly a color; as a white body reflects the rays of light without separating them. Black bodies, on the contrary, absorb all the rays, or nearly all, and therefore black is no distinct color But in common discourse, white and black are denominated colors; and all the colors admit of many shades of difference.

2. Appearance of a body to the eye, or a quality of sensation, caused by the rays of light; hue; dye; as the color of gold, or of indigo.

3. A red color; the freshness or appearance of blood in the face.

My cheeks no longer did their color boast.

4. Appearance to the mind; as, prejudice puts a false color upon objects.

5. Superficial cover; palliation; that which serves to give an appearance of right; as, their sin admitted no color or excuse.

6. External appearance; false show; pretense; guise.

Under the color of commending him,

I have access my own love to prefer.

7. Kind; species; character; complexion.

Boys and women are, for the most part, cattle of this color

8. That which is used for coloring; paint; as red lead, ocher, orpiment, cinnabar, or vermilion, etc.

9. Colors, with a plural termination, in the military art, a flag, ensign or standard, borne in an army or fleet. [See Flag.]

10. In law, color in pleading is when the defendant in assize or trespass, gives to the plaintiff a color or appearance of title, by stating his title specially; thus removing the cause from the jury to the court.

Water-colors are such as are used in painting with gum-water or size, without being mixed with oil.

COLOR, verb transitive

1. To change or alter the external appearance of a body or substance; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain; as, to color cloth. Generally, to color is to change from white to some other color

2. To give a specious appearance; to set in a fair light; to palliate; to excuse.

He colors the falsehood of Aeneas by an express command of Jupiter to forsake the queen.

3. To make plausible; to exaggerate in representation.

To color a strangers good, is when a freeman allows a foreigner to enter goods at the custom house in his name, to avoid the aliens duty.

COLOR, verb intransitive To blush.

Colorable

COLORABLE, adverb Speciously; plausibly; with a fair external appearance.

Colorate

COLORATE, adjective Colored; dyed; or tinged with some color.

Coloration

COLORATION, noun The art or practice of coloring, or the state of being colored.

Colorature

COLORATURE, noun In music, all manner of variations, trills, etc., intended to make a song agreeable.

Colored

COLORED, participle passive

1. Having the external appearance changed; dyed; tinged; painted stained.

2. Streaked; striped; having a diversity of hues.

3. Having a specious appearance.

COLORED people, black people, Africans or their descendants, mixed or unmixed.

Colorific

COLORIFIC, adjective That has the quality of tinging; able to give color, or tint to other bodies.

Coloring

COLORING, participle present tense

1. Dying; staining; tinging.

2. Giving a fair external appearance; palliating; excusing.

COLORING, noun

1. The act or art of dyeing; the state of being colored; color.

2. A specious appearance; fair artificial representation; as, the story has a coloring of truth.

3. Among painters, the manner of applying colors; or the mixture of light and shade, formed by the various colors employed.

Colorist

COLORIST, noun One who colors; a painter who excels in giving the proper colors to his designs.

Colorless

COLORLESS, adjective Destitute of color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as colorless water, glass or gas.

Colossal

COLOSSAL,

COLOSSEAN, adjective [See Colossus.] Like a colossus; very large; huge; gigantic.

Colossean

COLOSSEAN, a. [See Colossus.] Like a colossus; very large; huge; gigantic.

Colossus-Wise

COLOSSUS-WISE, adverb In the manner of a colossus.

Colstaff

COLSTAFF, noun A staff for carrying burdens by two on their shoulders.

Colt

COLT, noun

1. The young of the equine genus of animals or horse kind. In America, colt is equally applied to the male or female, and this is unquestionable correct. The male is called a house-colt, and the female is called a filly.

2. A young foolish fellow; a person without experience or stability.

COLT, verb intransitive To frisk, riot or frolic, like a colt; to be licentious.

COLT, verb transitive To befool.

Colter

COLTER, noun The fore iron of a plow, with a sharp edge, that cuts the earth or sod.

Coltish

COLTISH, adjective Like a colt; wanton; frisky; gay.

Colts-Foot

COLTS-FOOT, noun A genus of plants, the Tussilago. The name is also given to a species of Cacalia.

Colts-Tooth

COLTS-TOOTH, noun

1. A imperfect or superfluous tooth in young horses.

2. A love of youthful pleasure.

Well said, Lord Sands;

Your colts-tooth is not yet cast? Shak.

Coluber

COLUBER, noun In zoology, a genus of serpents, distinguished by scuta or hard crusts on the belly, and scales on the tail. Under this genus are ranked many species, as the viper, black snake, etc.

Colubrine

COLUBRINE, adjective Relating to the coluber, or to serpents; cunning; crafty.

Columbary

COLUMBARY, noun A dove-cot; a pigeon-house.

Columbate

COLUMBATE, noun A salt or compound of columbic acid, with a base.

Columbian

COLUMBIAN, adjective Pertaining to the United States, or to America, discovered by Columbus.

Columbic

COLUMBIC, adjective Pertaining to columbium; as columbic acid.

Columbiferous

COLUMBIFEROUS, adjective Producing or containing columbium.

Columbine

COLUMBINE, adjective Like or pertaining to a pigeon or dove; of a dove-color, or like the neck of a dove.

COLUMBINE, noun Aquilegia, a genus of plants of several species. The Thalictrum or meadow-rue is also called feathered columbine

Columbite

COLUMBITE, noun [See Columbium.] The ore of columbium.

Columbium

COLUMBIUM, noun A metal first discovered in an ore or oxyd, found in Connecticut, at New-London, near the house of Gov. Winthrop, and by him transmitted to Sir Hans Sloane, by whom it was deposited in the British museum. The same metal was afterwards discovered in Sweden, and called tantalum, and its ore tantalite.

Columbo

COLUMBO. [See Colombo.]

Columel

COLUMEL, noun In botany, the central column in a capsule, taking its rise from the receptacle, and having the seeds fixed to it all round.

Column

COLUMN, noun

1. In architecture, a long round body of wood or stone, used to support or adorn a building, composed of a base, a shaft and a capital. The shaft tapers from the base, in imitation of the stem of a tree. There are five kinds or orders of columns. 1. The Tuscan, rude, simple and massy; the highth of which is fourteen semidiameters or modules, and the diminution at the top from one sixth to one eighth of the inferior diameter. 2. The Doric, which is next in strength to the Tuscan, has a robust, masculine aspect; its highth is sixteen modules. 3. The Ionic is more slender than the Tuscan and Doric; its highth is eighteen modules. 4. The Corinthian is more delicate in its form and proportions, and enriched with ornaments; its highth should be twenty modules. 5. The Composite is a species of the Corinthian, and of the same highth.

In strictness, the shaft of a column consists of one entire piece; but it is often composed of different pieces, so united, as to have the appearance of one entire piece. It differs in this respect from a pillar, which primarily signifies a pile, composed of small pieces. But the two things are unfortunately confounded; and a column consisting of a single piece of timber is absurdly called a pillar or pile.

2. An erect or elevated structure resembling a column in architecture; as the astronomical column at Paris, a kind of hollow tower with a spiral ascent to the top; gnomonic column a cylinder on which the hour of the day is indicated by the shadow of a style; military column among the Romans; triumphal column; etc.

3. Any body pressing perpendicularly on its base, and of the same diameter as its base; as a column of water, air or mercury.

4. In the military art, a large body of troops drawn up in order; as a solid column

5. Among printers, a division of a page; a perpendicular set of lines separated from another set by a line or blank space. In manuscript books and papers, any separate perpendicular line or row of words or figures. A page may contain two or more columns; and in arithmetic, many columns of figures may be added.

Columnar

COLUMNAR, adjective Formed in columns; having the form of columns; like the shaft of a column; as columnar spar.

Columnarish

COLUMNARISH, adjective Somewhat resembling a column.

Colure

COLURE, noun In astronomy and geography, the colures are two great circles supposed to intersect each other at right angles, in the poles of the world, one of them passing through the solstitial and the other through the equinoctial points of the ecliptic, viz. Cancer and Capricorn, Aries and Libra, dividing the ecliptic into four equal parts. The points where these lines intersect the ecliptic are called cardinal points.

Com

COM, in composition as a prefix denotes with, to or against.

Coma

COMA, noun Lethargy; dozing; a preternatural propensity to sleep; a kind of stupor of diseased persons.

COMA, noun

1. In botany, a species of bracte, terminating the stem of a plant, in a tuft or bush; as in crown-imperial.

2. In astronomy, hairiness; the hairy appearance that surrounds a comet, when the earth or the spectator is between the comet and the sun.

Comart

COMART, noun A treaty; article; agreement.

Comatose

COMATOSE,

COMATOUS, adjective [See Coma.] Preter-naturally disposed to sleep; drowsy; dozing; without natural sleep; lethargic.

Comatous

COMATOUS, a. [See Coma.] Preter-naturally disposed to sleep; drowsy; dozing; without natural sleep; lethargic.

Comb

COMB, noun A valley between hills or mountains.

COMB, noun b silent.

1. An instrument, with teeth, for separating, cleansing and adjusting hair, wool, or flax. Also, an instrument of horn or shell, for keeping the hair in its place when dressed.

2. The crest, caruncle or red fleshy tuft, growing on a cocks head; so called from its indentures which resemble the teeth of a comb

3. The substance in which bees lodge their honey, in small hexagonal cells.

4. A dry measure of four bushels.

COMB, verb transitive To separate, disentangle, cleanse, and adjust with a comb as to comb hair; or to separate, cleanse and lay smooth and straight, as to comb wool.

COMB, verb intransitive In the language of seamen, to roll over, as the top of a wave; or to break with a white foam.

Comb-Bird

COMB-BIRD, noun A gallinaceous fowl of Africa, of the size of a turkey-cock.

Comb-Brush

COMB-BRUSH, noun A brush to clean combs.

Comb-Maker

COMB-MAKER, noun One whose occupation is to make combs.

Combat

COMBAT, verb intransitive

1. To fight; to struggle or contend with an opposing force.

Pardon me; I will not combat in my shirt.

This word is particularly used to denote private contest, or the fighting of two persons in a duel; but it is used in a general sense for the contention of bodies of men, nations, armies, or any species of animals.

After the fall of the republic, the Romans comabated only for the choice of maters.

2. To act in opposition.

It is followed by with before the person, and for before the thing sought.

A combats with B for his right.

COMBAT, verb transitive

1. To fight with; to oppose by force; as, to combat an antagonist.

2. To contend against; to oppose; to resist; as, to combat arguments or opinions.

COMBAT, noun

1. A fighting; a struggling to resist, overthrow or conquer; contest by force; engagement; battle; as the combat of armies.

2. A duel; a fighting between two men; formerly, a formal trail of a doubtful cause, or decision of a controversy between two persons, by swords or batons.

Combatant

COMBATANT, adjective Contending; disposed to contend.

COMBATANT, noun

1. A person who combats; any person who fights with another, or in an army, or fleet.

2. A duellist; one who fights or contends in battle, for the decision of a private quarrel or difference; a champion.

3. A person who contends with another in argument, or controversy.

Combated

COMBATED, participle passive Opposed; resisted.

Combater

COMBATER, noun One who fights or contends.

Combating

COMBATING, participle present tense Striving to resist; fighting; opposing by force or by argument.

Combed

COMBED, participle passive Separated, cleaned, or dressed with a comb.