A tool to polish the edge of a sole.

The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.

Colliding; clashing.

Disputing or wrangling. One who litigates or wrangles.

To set or place; to set; to station.

The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.

A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse.

One of the speakers in a dialogue.

A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a coating for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography.

To prepare or treat with collodion.

A picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype.

See Collodion.

To talk or confer secretly and confidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief.

A substance (as albumin, gum, gelatin, etc.) which is of a gelatinous rather than a crystalline nature, and which diffuses itself through animal membranes or vegetable parchment more slowly than crystalloids do; -- opposed to crystalloid.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, colloids.

The state or quality of being colloidal.

A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh.

Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops.

A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola. An adhesive marginal organ of the Lucernariae.

The Latinic plural of colloquium.

Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.

A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.

To make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one's style of writing.

A speaker in a colloquy or dialogue.

A conference treating a specific topic, at which experts and specialists present their views and discuss and analyze the information presented; the emphasis on conversation among the experts and with the audience distinguishes a colloquium from the more generic conference.

Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation.

A photomechanical print made directly from a hardened film of gelatin or other colloid; also, the process of making such prints. According to one method, the film is sensitized with potassium dichromate and exposed to light under a reversed negative. After the dichromate has been washed out, the film is soaked in glycerin and water. As this treatment causes swelling in those parts of the film which have been acted on by light, a plate results from which impressions can be taken with prepared ink. The albertype, phototype, and heliotype are collotypes.

Soot; smut. See 1st Colly.

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

A struggling; a contention.

To have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in concert.

One who conspires in a fraud.

A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning.

Characterized by collusion; done or planned in collusion.

Collusive.

A medicated wash for the mouth.

A collection or gathering, as of pus, or rubbish, or odds and ends.

A kind of dog. See Collie.

A money changer.

An application to the eye, usually an eyewater.

A defect or malformation; esp., a fissure of the iris supposed to be a persistent embryonic cleft.

a small genus of perennial tuberous herbs of the arum family, of tropical Asia and the Pacific islands, including the taro (Colocasia esculente).

A South American wild cat (Felis colocolo), of the size of the ocelot.

The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus colocynthis, or Cucumis colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd.

The active medicinal principle of colocynth; a bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside.

A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne.

A large size of paper for drawings. See under Paper.

See Calumbin.

See Calumba.

That part of the large intestines which extends from the c/cum to the rectum. [See Illust. of Digestion.]

The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.

The office, rank, or commission of a colonel.

Colonelcy.

A colonist.

Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.

The state or quality of, or the relationship involved in, being colonial.

a believer in or advocate of colonialism{3}.

of or pertaining to the colon.

Of or pertaining to husbandmen.

A member or inhabitant of a colony.

The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies.

A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.

To remove to, and settle in, a distant country; to make a colony.

inhabited by people who were born in or retain strong ties to another country.

One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist.

A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.

having a series of columns arranged at regular intervals; furnished with a colonnade.

A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America.

an instrument designed to conveniently count or assist counting colonies{9} of microorganisms on a plate containing a gelled growth medium. One variety uses a pencil-like rod with a metal tip, which is connected by an electrical connection to the gelled growth medium; when touched to a colony{9} on the plate, the completion of the electrical circuit causes an increment of 1 unit on the readout of the colony counter.

See Colophony.

A colorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene.

An inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book.

A coarsely granular variety of garnet.

Rosin.

See Colocynth.

To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.

Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.

Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.

a resident of the state of Colorado.

a handsome shrub (Hamelia patens) with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; it grows from Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil.

Reddish; -- often used in proper names of rivers or creeks.

Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.

Colored.

The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored.

Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.

Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.

having striking color. Opposite of colorless.

Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.

An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.

The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance.

The act of applying color to; also, that which produces color.

One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance.

Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water; a colorless gas.

A vender of paints, etc.

a flag flown by a ship to show its nationality.

Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue.

Colossal.

The amphitheater of Vespasian in Rome.

A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes.

The first milk secreted after delivery; biestings. A mixture of turpentine and the yolk of an egg, formerly used as an emulsion.

An operation for opening the colon

See Color.

same as colored.

same as colorful.

same as coloring.

same as colors.

See Collop.

The distribution of religious books, tracts, etc., by colporteurs.

Same as Colporteur.

A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books.

A staff by means of which a burden is borne by two persons on their shoulders.

To horse; to get with young.

A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.

Like a colt; wanton; frisky.

A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine.

A genus of harmless serpents.

any member of a large family (Colubridae) of mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes.

a broad family including only nonvenomous snakes, containing about two-thirds of all living species. It includes the bullsnakes, garter snakes, and water snakes as well as many other species.

a genus of mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits.

like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber.