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.

See Calumba.

An order of birds, including the pigeons.

A dovecote or pigeon house. A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns.

A dovecote; a pigeon house.

A salt of columbic acid; a niobate. See Columbium.

A genus of univalve shells, abundant in tropical seas. Some species, as Columbella mercatoria, were formerly used as shell money.

America; the United States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus, the discoverer.

A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation.

Of or pertaining to the United States, or to America.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the columbo root.

See Colombier.

Producing or containing columbium.

A white, crystalline, bitter substance. See Calumbin.

A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, Aquilegia vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; Aquilegia Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America.

A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England.

A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam. Atomic weight 94.2. Symbol Cb or Nb. Now more commonly called niobium.

See Calumba.

An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens. A columnlike axis in the capsules of mosses.

Shaped like a little column, or columella.

A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order.

Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column.

The state or quality of being columnar.

Having columns; as, columnated temples.

Having columns.

The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure.

a journalist who writes or edits a regularly scheduled column{8} in a periodical, usually in editorial style; a type of editorialist.

One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90/ from the former, and is called the solstitial colure.

small genus of Eurasian shrubs with yellow flowers and bladdery pods.

Any bird of the genus Colius and allied genera. They inhabit Africa.

an order of birds, including the family Podicipedidae, which consitutes the grebes.

A variety of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes; summer rape.

The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet.

A warlike, savage, and nomadic tribe of the Shoshone family of Indians, inhabiting Mexico and the adjacent parts of the United States; -- called also Paducahs. They are noted for plundering and cruelty.

small genus of chiefly North American parasitic plants.

A covenant.

Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.

Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.

Comatose.

A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars.

Any crinoid of the genus Antedon or allied genera.

A dry measure. See Coomb.

Pectinate.

A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.

Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments.

One who engages in combat. IN military use, opposed to noncombatant.

One who combats.

Disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.

The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.

In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.

A tooth of a wool comb.

See Comb.

That unwatered portion of a valley which forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it.

The cabrilla. Also, a name applied to a species of wrasse.

Capable of combining; consistent with.

United; joined; betrothed.

The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things.

of or relating to combinations.

produced by a combinatorial process.

same as combinatorial, 1.

able to combine; tending to combine.