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.

A peculiar East Indian mammal (Galleopithecus volans), having along the sides, connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachutelike membrane, by means of which it is able to make long leaps, like the flying squirrel; -- called also flying lemur.

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.

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.

To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate.

United closely; confederated; chemically united.

In combination or cooperation; jointly.

One who, or that which, combines.

The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool.

Without a comb or crest; as, a combless cock.

a small band of jazz musicians.

A Muslim rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads.

any of numerous shrubs or small trees of the genus Combretum having spikes of small flowers.

supporting combustion.

Burnt; consumed.

The quality of being combustible.

A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn.

Combustibility.

The state of burning.

Inflammable.

Coming.

A gripping device, as for stretching wire, etc., consisting of two jaws so attached to a ring that they are closed by pulling on the ring.

One who comes out or withdraws from a religious or other organization; a radical reformer.

An actor or player in comedy.

A women who plays in comedy.

A dramatic sketch; a brief comedy.

A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt).

A downfall; an humiliation.

A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy; -- opposed to tragedy.

In a suitable or becoming manner.

The quality or state of being comely.

In a becoming manner.

One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present.

The answer to the theme (dux) in a fugue.

A reveling; a rioting.

Something suitable to be eaten; -- commonly in the plural.

A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion. A comet commonly consists of three parts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequently wanting. See Illustration in Appendix.

A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets.

An instrument, intended to represent the revolution of a comet round the sun.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a comet.

Matter; affair.

Relating to a comet.