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Coloq. Collimating eyepiece , an eyepiece with a diagonal reflector for illumination, used to determine the error of collimation in a transit instrument by observing the image of a cross wire reflected from mercury, and comparing its position in the field with that of the same wire seen directly. -- Coloq. Collimating lens (Optics), a lens used for producing parallel rays of light.
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Collimation (?), n. [Cf. F. collimation, fr. a false reading (collimare) for L. collineare to direct in a straight line; col- + linea line. Cf. .] The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument.
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Coloq. Error of collimation , the deviation of the line collimation of an astronomical instrument from the position it ought to have with respect to the axis of motion of the instrument. -- Coloq. Line of collimation , the axial line of the telescope of an astronomical or geodetic instrument, or the line which passes through the optical center of the object glass and the intersection of the cross wires at its focus.
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Collimator (?), n. 1. (Astron.) A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal. Nichol.
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2. (Optics) A tube having a convex lens at one end and at the other a small opening or slit which is at the principal focus of the lens, used for producing a beam of parallel rays; also, a lens so used.
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Collin (?), n. [Gr. kolla glue.] A very pure form of gelatin.
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Colline (?), n. [F. colline, fr. L. collis a hill.] A small hill or mount. [Obs.]
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And watered park, full of fine collines and ponds. Evelyn.
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Collineation (?), n. [L. collineare to direct in a straight line. See .] The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. [R.] Johnson.
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Colling (?), n. [From , v. t.] An embrace; dalliance. [Obs.] Halliwell.
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Collingly, adv. With embraces. [Obs.] Gascoigne.
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Collingual (?), a. Having, or pertaining to, the same language.
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Colliquable (?), a. Liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid. [Obs.] Harvey.
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Colliquament (?), n. The first rudiments of an embryo in generation. Dr. H. More.
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Colliquate (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Colliquated; p. pr. & vb. n. Colliquating.] [Pref. col- + L. liquare, liquatum, to melt.] To change from solid to fluid; to make or become liquid; to melt. [Obs.]
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The ore of it is colliquated by the violence of the fire. Boyle.
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[Ice] will colliquate in water or warm oil. Sir T. Browne.
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Colliquation (?), n. 1. A melting together; the act of melting; fusion.
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When sand and ashes are well melted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call “glass”. Boyle.
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2. (Med.) A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages. [Obs.]
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Colliquative (?), a. Causing rapid waste or exhaustion; melting; as, colliquative sweats.
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Colliquefaction (?), n. [L. colliquefactus melted; col- + liquefacere; liquēre to be liquid + facere to make.] A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.
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The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.
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Collish (?), n. (Shoemaking) A tool to polish the edge of a sole. Knight.
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Collision (?), n. [L. collisio, fr. collidere. See .] 1. The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.
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2. A state of opposition; antagonism; interference.
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The collision of contrary false principles. Bp. Warburton.
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Sensitive to the most trifling collisions. W. Irving.

Syn. -- Conflict; clashing; encounter; opposition.
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Collisive (?), a. Colliding; clashing. [Obs.]
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Collitigant (?), a. Disputing or wrangling. [Obs.] -- n. One who litigates or wrangles. [Obs.]
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Collocate (?), a. [L. collocatus, p. p. of collocare. See .] Set; placed. [Obs.] Bacon.
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Collocate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collocated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Collocating (?).] To set or place; to set; to station.
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To marshal and collocate in order his battalions. E. Hall.
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Collocation (?), n. [L. collocatio.] 1. The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.
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The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.
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2. (Linguistics) a combination of related words within a sentence that occurs more frequently than would be predicted in a random arrangement of words; a combination of words that occurs with sufficient frequency to be recongizable as a common combination, especially a pair of words that occur adjacent to each other. Also called stable collocation. Combinations of words having intervening words between them, such as verb and object pairs, may also be collocations.
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Collocution (?), n. [L. collocutio, fr. colloqui, -locutum, to converse; col- + loqui to speak. See .] A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse. Bailey.
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Collocutor (?), n. [L. collocutor] One of the speakers in a dialogue. Derham.
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Collodion (?), n. [Gr. � like glue; kolla glue + � form. Cf. .] (Chem.) 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.
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Coloq. Collodion process (Photog.), a process in which a film of sensitized collodion is used in preparing the plate for taking a picture. -- Coloq. Styptic collodion , collodion containing an astringent, as tannin.
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Collodionize (?), v. t. To prepare or treat with collodion. R. Hunt.
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Collodiotype (?), n. A picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype.
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Collodium (?), n. See .
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Collogue (?), v. i. [Cf. L. colloqui and E. dialogue. Cf. .] To talk or confer secretly and confidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief. [Archaic or Colloq.]
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Pray go in; and, sister, salve the matter,
Collogue with her again, and all shall be well. Greene.
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He had been colloguing with my wife. Thackeray.
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Colloid (?), a. [Gr. kolla glue + -oid. Cf. .] Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.
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Colloid (?), n. 1. (Physiol. Chem.) 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.
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2. (Med.) A gelatinous substance found in colloid degeneration and colloid cancer.
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Coloq. Styptic colloid (Med.), a preparation of astringent and antiseptic substances with some colloid material, as collodion, for ready use.
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Colloidal (?), a. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, colloids.
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Colloidality (?), n. The state or quality of being colloidal.
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Collop (?), n. [Of uncertain origin; cf. OF. colp blow, stroke, piece, F. coup, fr. L. colophus buffet, cuff, Gr. �] [Written also colp.] 1. A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh.
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God knows thou art a collop of my flesh. Shak.
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Sweetbread and collops were with skewers pricked. Dryden.
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2. A part or piece of anything; a portion.
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Cut two good collops out of the crown land. Fuller.
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Colloped (?), a. Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops.
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With that red, gaunt, and colloped neck astrain. R. Browning.
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Collophore (?), n. [Gr. kolla glue + ferein to bear.] (Zoöl.) (a) A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola. (b) An adhesive marginal organ of the Lucernariae.
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Colloquial (?), a. [See .] Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style. -- Colloquially, adv.
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His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the highest order. Macaulay.
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Colloquialism (?), n. A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.
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Colloquialize (?), v. t. To make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one's style of writing.
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Colloquist (?), n. A speaker in a colloquy or dialogue. Malone.
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Colloquy (?), n.; pl. Colloquies (#). [L. colloquium. See .] 1. Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation.
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They went to Worms, to the colloquy there about religion. A. Wood.
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2. In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship.
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Collotype (?), n. [Gr. � glue + -type.] 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.
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Collow (?), n. Soot; smut. See 1st . [Obs.]
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Colluctancy (?), n. [L. colluctari to struggle with.] A struggling to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature. [Obs.]
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Colluctation (?), n. [L. colluctatio, fr. colluctari to struggle with; col- + luctari to struggle.] A struggling; a contention. [Obs.]
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Colluctation with old hags and hobgoblins. Dr. H. More.
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Collude (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Colluded; p. pr. & vb. n. Colluding.] [L. colludere, -lusum; col- + ludere to play. See .] To have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in concert.
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If they let things take their course, they will be represented as colluding with sedition. Burke.
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Colluder (?), n. One who conspires in a fraud.
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Collum (?), n.; pl. Colla (#). [L., neck.]
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1. (Anat.) A neck or cervix. Dunglison.
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2. (Bot.) Same as . Gray.
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Collusion (?), n. [L. collusio: cf. F. collusion. See .] 1. A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning.
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The foxe, maister of collusion. Spenser.
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That they [miracles] be done publicly, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion. Atterbury.
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By the ignorance of the merchants or dishonesty of the weavers, or the collusion of both, the ware was bad and the price excessive. Swift.
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2. (Law) An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law. Bouvier. Abbott.

Syn. -- , . A person who is guilty of connivance intentionally overlooks, and thus sanctions what he was bound to prevent. A person who is guilty of collusion unites with others (playing into their hands) for fraudulent purposes.
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Collusive (?), a. 1. Characterized by collusion; done or planned in collusion. “Collusive and sophistical arguings.” J. Trapp. “Collusive divorces.” Strype.
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2. Acting in collusion. “Collusive parties.” Burke.

-- Collusively, adv. -- Collusiveness, n.
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Collusory (?), a. [L. collusorius.] Collusive.
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Collutory (?), n. [L. colluere, collutum, to wash.] (Med.) A medicated wash for the mouth.
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Colluvies (?), n. [L., a collection of washings, dregs, offscourings, fr. colluere to wash; col- + luere to wash.] 1. A collection or gathering, as of pus, or rubbish, or odds and ends.
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2. A medley; offscourings or rabble.
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Colly (?), n. [From .] The black grime or soot of coal. [Obs.] Burton.

Colly, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Collying.] To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime. [Archaic.]
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Thou hast not collied thy face enough. B. Jonson.
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Brief as the lighting in the collied night. Shak.
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Colly (?), n. A kind of dog. See .
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Collybist (?), n. [Gr. �, fr. � a small coin.] A money changer. [Obs.]
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In the face of these guilty collybists. Bp. Hall.
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Collyrium (?), n.; pl. E. Collyriums (#), L. Collyria (#). [L., fr. Gr. �.] (Med.) An application to the eye, usually an eyewater.
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Coloboma (?), n. [NL. fr. Gr. �, the part taken away in mutilation, fr. � to mutilate.] (Anat. & Med.) A defect or malformation; esp., a fissure of the iris supposed to be a persistent embryonic cleft.
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Colocasia n. a small genus of perennial tuberous herbs of the arum family, of tropical Asia and the Pacific islands, including the taro (Colocasia esculente).
Syn. -- genus Colocasia.
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Colocolo (?), n. (Zoöl.) A South American wild cat (Felis colocolo), of the size of the ocelot.
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Colocynth (?), n. [L. colocynthis, Gr. �. Cf. .] (Med.) 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.
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Colocynthin (?), n. [Cf. F. colocynthine.] (Chem.) The active medicinal principle of colocynth; a bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside.
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Cologne (?), n. [Originally made in Cologne, the French name of Köln, a city in Germany.] A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne.
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Cologne earth (?). [From Cologne the city.] (Min.) An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.
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Colombier (?), n. [F.] A large size of paper for drawings. See under .
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Colombin (?), n. (Chem.) See .
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Colombo prop. n. (Geography) The (official) capital city of Sri Lanka. Population (2000) = 1,994,000.
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Colombo (?), n. (Med.) See .
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Colon (kōlŏn), n. [L. colon, colum, limb, member, the largest of the intestines, fr. Gr. kw^lon, and in sense of the intestine, kolon: cf. F. colon. Cf. .] 1. (Anat.) That part of the large intestines which extends from the cæcum to the rectum. [See Illust. of .]
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2. (Gram.) A point or character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction.
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Colonel (?), n. [F. colonel, It. colonello, prop., the chief or commander of a column, fr. colonna column, L. columna. See .] (Mil.) The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.
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Colonelcy (?), n. (Mil.) The office, rank, or commission of a colonel.
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Colonelship, n. Colonelcy. Swift.
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Coloner (?), n. A colonist. [Obs.] Holland
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Colonial (?), a. [Cf. F. colonial.] Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.
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Colonialism (?), n. 1. The state or quality of, or the relationship involved in, being colonial.

The last tie of colonialism which bound us to the mother country is broken. Brander Matthews.
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2. A custom, idea, feature of government, or the like, characteristic of a colony.
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3. The colonial system of political government or extension of territory, by which one nation exerts political control over another nation, territory, or people, maintaining the colony in a state of dependence, its inhabitants not having the same full rights as those of the colonial power. The controlling power is typically extended thus by military force or the threat of force.
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4. the political or ideological system of beliefs advocating or justifying colonial control of one nation over another nation, territory, or people.
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colonialist n. a believer in or advocate of colonialism{3}.
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colonic adj. of or pertaining to the colon.
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Colonical (?), a. [L. colonus husbandman.] Of or pertaining to husbandmen. [Obs.]
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Colonist (?), n. A member or inhabitant of a colony.
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Colonitis (?), n. (Med.) See .
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Colonization (?), n. [Cf. F. colonisation.] The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies.
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The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.
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Colonizationist, n. A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.
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Colonize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Colonized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Colonizing.] [Cf. F. coloniser.] To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in. Bacon.
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They that would thus colonize the stars with inhabitants. Howell.
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Colonize, v. i. To remove to, and settle in, a distant country; to make a colony. C. Buchanan.
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colonized adj. 1. inhabited by people who were born in or retain strong ties to another country.
Syn. -- settled.
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2. politically ruled by citizens of another country.
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3. having a population (of animals or plants) which moved in from another territory.
Syn. -- colonized.
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Colonizer (?), n. One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist. Bancroft.
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Colonnade (?), n. [F. colonnade, It. colonnata, fr. colonna column. See .] (Arch.) A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.
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☞ When in front of a building, it is called a portico; when surrounding a building or an open court or square, a peristyle.
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colonnaded adj. having a series of columns arranged at regular intervals; furnished with a colonnade.
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Colony (kŏl�n�), n.; pl. Colonies (kŏl�nĭz). [L. colonia, fr. colonus farmer, fr. colere to cultivate, dwell: cf. F. colonie. Cf. .] 1. 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.
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The first settlers 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. Ames.
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2. The district or country colonized; a settlement.
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3. a territory subject to the ruling governmental authority of another country and not a part of the ruling country.
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4. A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.
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5. (Nat. Hist.) A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.
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6. (Bot.) A cell family or group of common origin, mostly of unicellular organisms, esp. among the lower algæ. They may adhere in chains or groups, or be held together by a gelatinous envelope.
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7. (Zoöl.) A cluster or aggregation of zooids of any compound animal, as in the corals, hydroids, certain tunicates, etc.
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8. (Zoöl.) A community of social insects, as ants, bees, etc.
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9. (Microbiology) a group of microorganisms originating as the descendents of one individual cell, growing on a gelled growth medium, as of gelatin or agar; especially, such a group that has grown to a sufficient number to be visible to the naked eye.
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Colony counter (kŏl�n� kountẽr), n. (Microbiology) 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.
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Colophany (? or ?), n. See .
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Colophene (? or ?), n. (Chem.) A colorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene.
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