place: then it runs under the bottom of the stomach to the spleen in the left side, to which it is also knit from thence it turns down to the left kidney; and thence passing in form of an S, it terminates at the upper part of the os sacrum in the rectum. Quincy. Now, by your cruelty hard bound, I strain my guts, my colon wound. Swift. The contents of the colon are of a sour, fetid, acid smell in rabbits. Floyer on the Humours. CO'LONEL. n. s. [of uncertain etymology. Skinner imagines it originally colonialis, the leader of a colony. Minshew deduces it from colonna, a pillar: as, patrie columen; exercitus columen. Each is plausible.] The chief commander of a regiment; a field officer of the highest rank, next to the general officers. It is now generally sounded with only two distinct syllables, col'nel. The chiefest help must be the care of the colonel, that hath the government of all his garrison. Spenser on Ireland. Captain or colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize, If deed of honour did thee ever please, CO'LONE LSHIP. n. s. [from colonel.] The office or character of colonel. While he continued a subaltern, he complained against the pride of colonels towards their officers; yet, in a few minutes after he had received his commission for a regiment, he confessed that colonelship was coming fast upon him. Swift. To COLONIZE. v. a. [from colony.] To plant with inhabitants; to settle with new planters; to plant with colonies. There was never an hand drawn, that did double the rest of the habitable world, before this; for so a man may truly term it, if he shall put to account as well that that is, as that which may be hereafter, by the farther occupation and colonizing of those countries: and yet it cannot be affirmed, if one speak ingenuously, that it was the propagation of the christian faith that was the adamant of that discovery, entry, and plantation; but gold and silver, and temporal profit and glory; so that what was first in God's providence, was but second in man's appetite and intention. Bacon's Holy War. Druina hath advantage by acquest of islands, which she colonizeth and fortifieth daily. Horvel. COLONNA'DE. n. s. [from colonna, Ital. a column.] 1. A peristyle of a circular figure; or a series of columns disposed in a circle, and insulated withinside. Builder's Dict. Here circling colonnades the ground inclose, And here the marble statues breathe in rows. 2. Any series or range of pillars. Addison. For you my colonnades extend their wings. Pope. CO'LONY. n. s. [colonia, Latin.] 1. A body of people drawn from the mother country to inhabit some distant place. To these new inhabitants and colonies he gave the same law under which they were born and bred Spenser on Ireland. Rooting out these two rebellious septs, he placed English colonies in their rooms. Davies. Osiris, or the Bacchus of the ancients, re ported to have civilized the Indians, planting colonies, and building cities. Arbuthnot on Coins. 2. The country planted; a plantation. The rising city which from far you see, Is Carthage, and a Tyrian colony. Dryden. Co'LOPHONY. n. s. [from Colophon, a city whence it came.] Rosin. Of Venetian turpentine, slowly evaporating about a fourth or fifth part, the remaining substance suffered to cool, would afford me a coherent body, or a fine colophony. Boyle. Turpentines and oils leave a colophony, upon a separation of their thinner oil. Flayer. COLOQUINTEDA. n. s. [colocynthis, Lat. xoxómovfig.] The fruit of a plant of the same name, brought from the Levant, about the bigness of a large orange, and often called bitter apple. Both the seed and pulp are intolerably bitter. It is a violent purgative, of considerable use in medicine. Chambers. COLORATE. adj. [coloratus, Lat.] Coloured; died; marked or stained with some colour. Had the tunicles and humours of the eye been colorate, many rays from visible objects would have been stopt. Ray. COLORATION. n. s. [coloro, Latin.] 1. The art or practice of colouring. 2. Some bodies have a more departable nature than others, as is evident in coloration; for a small quantity of saffron will tinct more than a Bacon. great quantity of brasil. The state of being coloured. Amongst curiosities I shall place coloration, though somewhat better; for beauty in flowers is their preheminence. Bacon's Natural Hist. COLORIFICK. adj. [colorificus, Latin.] That has the power of producing dies, tints, colours, or hues. In this composition of white, the several rays do not suffer any change in their colorifick qualities by acting upon one another; but are only mixed, and by a mixture of their colours produce white. Newton's Opticks. COLO'SSE. n. s. [colossus, Lat.] A COLOSSUS. statue of enormous mag nitude. Not to mention the walls and palace of Babylon, the pyramids of Egypt, or colosse of Rhodes. Temple. There huge colossus rose,with trophies crown'd, And Runick characters were grav'd'around. Pope. COLOSSE'AN. adj. [colosseus, Latin.] In form of a colossus; of the height and bigness of such a statue; giantlike. CO'LOUR. n. s. [color, Latin.] 1. The appearance of bodies to the eye only; hue; die. It is a vulgar idea of the colours of solid bodies, when we perceive them to be a red, or blue, or green tincture of the surface; but a philoso phical idea, when we consider the various colours to be different sensations, excited in us by the refracted rays of light, reflected on our eyes in a different manner, according to the different size, or shape, or situation of the particles of which Watts. surfaces are composed. Her hair shall be of what colour it please God. For though our eyes can nought but coloresce, The lights of colours are more refrangible one Dryden. A sudden horror seiz'd his giddy head, And his ears trickled, and his colour fled. Dryd. 3. The tint of the painter. When each bold figure just begins to live, The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away. Pope. 4. The representation of any thing superficially examined. Their wisdom is only of this world, to put false colours upon things, to call good evil, and evil good, against the conviction of their own consciences. Swift. 5. Conccalment; palliation; excuse; superficial cover. It is no matter if I do halt; I have the wars for my colour, and my pension shall seem the more reasonable. Shakspeare's Henry W. 'Their sin admitted no colour or excuse. King Charles. 6. Appearance; pretence; false show. Under the colour of commending him, I have access my own love to prefer. Shaksp. Merchants came to Rhodes with a great ship laden with corn; under the colour of the sale whereof, they noted all that was done in the city. Knolles' History of the Turks. 7. Kind; species; character. Boys and women are, for the most part, cattle of this colour. Shakspeare's As you like it. 8. In the plural, a standard; an ensign of war: they say the colours of the foot, and standard of the horse. He at Venice gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long. Shakspeare's Richard 11. Against all checks, rebukes, and manners, I must advance the colours of my love, And not retire. Shakspeare. The banks were filled with companies, passing all along the river under their colours, with trumpets sounding.' Knolles. Colours is used singularly by Addison. An author compares a ragged coin to a tattered colours. Addison. To CO'LOUR. v. a. [coloro, Latin.] 1. To mark with some hue, or die. The rays, to speak properly, are not coloured: in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that colour. Newton's Opticks. 2. To palliate; to excuse; to dress in specious colours, or fair appearances. I told him, that I would not fayour or colour in any sort his former folly. Raleigh's Essays. He colours the falsehood of Æneas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the < queen. Dryden's Dedicat. Eneid. 3. To make plausible. We have scarce heard of an insurrection that was not coloured with grievances of the highest kind, or countenanced by one or more branches of the legislature. Addison's Frecholder. 4. TO COLOUR a stranger's goods, is when a freeman allows a foreigner to enter goods at the customhouse in his name; so that the foreigner pays but single duty, when he ought to pay double. Phillips. To CO'LOUR. v. n. To blush. A low word, only used in conversation. CO'LOURABLE. adj. [from colour.] Spe cious; plausible. It is now little used. They have now a colourable pretence to with stand innovations, having accepted of other laws and rules already. Spenser They were glad to lay hold on so colourable a matter, and to traduce him as an author of su spicious innovation. Hocker. Had I sacrificed ecclesiastical government and revenues to their covetousness and ambition, they would have found no colourable necessity of an army. King Charles. We hope the mercy of God will consider us unto some mineration of our offences; yet had not the sincerity of our parents so colourable ex pectations. Brown's Vulgar Erreurs. CO'LOURABLY. adv. [from colourable.] Speciously; plausibly. The process, howsoever colourably awarded, hath not hit the very mark whereat it was di rected. CO'LOURED. participial adj. [from colour.] Streaked; diversified with variety of hues. The coloured are coarser juiced, and therefore not so well and equally concocted. Bacon. CO'LOURING. n. s. [from colour.] The part of the painter's art that teaches to lay on his colours with propriety and beauty. But as the slightest sketch, if justly trac'd, Is by ill colouring but the more disgrac'd; So by false learning is good sense defac'd. Pept Co'LOURIST. n. s. [from colour.] A painter who excels in giving the proper colours to his designs. nature. Titian, Paul Veronese, Van Dyck, and the rest of the good colourists, have come nearest to Dryden's Dufresney. CO'LOURLESS. adj. [from colour.] With out colour; not distinguished by any hue; transparent. Transparent substances, as glass, water, and air, when made very thin by being blown inte bubbles, or otherways formed into plates, exhi bit various colours, according to their various thinness: although, at a greater thickness, they Neton. appear very clear and colourless. Pellucid colourless glass or water, by being beaten into a powder or froth, do acquire a very intense whiteness. Beatly COLT. n. s. [colt, Saxon.] 1. A young horse: used commonly for the male offspring of a horse, as filly for the female. The colt hath about four years of growth, and so the fawn, and so the calf. Bacen's Nat. Hist. Like colts or unmanaged horses, we start at dead bones and lifeless blocks. Taylor. No sports, but what belong to war, they know, To break the stubborn calt, to bend the bow. 2. A Dryden's Æneid foolish fellow. young Ay, that's a colt, indeed; for he doth nothing but talk of his horse. Shakspeare To COLT. v. n. [from the noun.] To frisk; to be licentious; to run at large without rule; to riot; to frolick. As soon as they were out of sight by them selves, they shook off their bridles, and began to colt anew more licentiously than before,, Spenser's State of Ireland, To COLT. v. a. To befool. What a plague mean ye, to colt me thus? Shakspeare's Henry IV. COLT'S FOOT. n. s. [tussilago; from colt and foot. A plant. It hath a radiated flower, whose disk consists of many florets, but the crown composed of many half florets: the embryos are included in a multifid flowercup, which turns to downy seeds fixed in a bed. Miller. COLT'S-TOOTH. n.s. [from colt and tooth.] 1. An imperfect or superfluous tooth in young horses. 2. A love of youthful pleasure; a dispo- stump. Your colt's-tooth is not cast yet?- CO'LUMBARY. n. s. [columbarium, Latin.] rue. The earth of columbaries, or dovehouses, is much desired in the artifice of saltpetre. Brotun. COLUMBINE., n. s. [columbina, Latin.] A plant with leaves like the meadow Miller. Columbines are of several sorts and colours. They flower in the end of May, when few other flowers shew. Mortimer. COLUMBINE. n. s. [columbinus, Latin.] A kind of violet colour, or changeable dove colour. Dict. COLUMN. n. s. [columna, Latin.]. 1. A round pillar. Some of the old Greek columns, and altars, were brought from the ruins of Apollo's temple Peacham. at Delos. Round broken columns clasping ivy twin'd. Pope. 2. Any body of certain dimensions pressing vertically upon its base. ments. The whole weight of any column of the atmosphere, and likewise the specifick gravity of its basis, are certainly known by many experi-. Bentley. 3. [In the military art.] The long file or row of troops, or of baggage, of an army in its march. An army marches in one, two, three, or more columns, according as the ground will allow. 4. [With printers.] A column is half a page, when divided into two equal parts by a line passing through the middle, from the top to the bottom; and, by several parallel lines, pages are often divided into three or more columns. CO'LUMNAR, Formed in columns. White columnar spar, out of a stone-pit. Woodward on Fossils. CO'LURES. n. s. [coluri, Latin; xoñoupo..] Two great circles supposed to pass through the poles of the world: one through the equinoctial points, Aries COLUMNA'RIAN. adj. [from column.] and Libra; the other through the solstitial points, Cancer and Capricorn They are called the equinoctial and sol stitial colures, and divide the ecliptick into four equal parts. The points where they intersect the ecliptick are called the cardinal points. Harris. Thrice the equinoctial line By the same comart, Shakspeare's Hamlet. 3. Cocks have great combs and spurs, hens little or none. High was his comb, and coral-red withal, With dents embattled like a castle-wall. Dryd. The cavities in which the bees lodge their honey: perhaps from the same word which makes the termination of towns, and signifies hollow or deep. This in affairs of state, Employ'd at home, abides within the gate; To fortify the combs, to build the wall, To prop the ruins, lest the fabrick fall. Dryden. To COMB. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To divide, and clean, and adjust the hair with a comb. Her care shall be To comb your noddle with a three-legg'd stool. Divers with us that are grown grey, and yet would appear young, find means to make their hair black, by combing it, as they say, with a leaden comb, or the like." Bacon. She with ribbons tied extended twenty long poles, wherewith the man-mountain combs his head. Swift. 2. To lay any thing consisting of filaments smooth, by drawing through narrow interstices: as, to comb wool. COME-BRUSH. n. s. [comb and brush.] A brush to clean combs. COMB-MAKER. n. s. [comb and maker.] One whose trade is to make combs. This wood is of use for the turner, engraver, carver, and comb-maker. Mortimer's Husbandry. To COʻMBAT. v. n. [combastre, Fr.] 1. To fight: generally in a duel, or hand to hand. Pardon me, I will not combat in my shirt. Shak. 2. To act in opposition: as, the acid and alkali combat. Two planets rushing from aspect malign Of fiercest opposition in mid sky, Should combat, and their jarring spheres con found. Milton, To COMBAT. v. a. To oppose; to fight. Their oppressors have changed the scene, and combated the opinions in their true shape. Decay of Piety. Love yields at last, thus combated by pride, And she submits to be the Roman's bride. Gran. COMBAT. n.s. [from the verb.] Contest; battle; duel; strife; opposition: generally between two, but sometimes it is used for battle Those regions were full both of cruel monsters and monstrous men; all which, by private combats, they delivered the countries of. Sidney. The noble combat that, 'twixt joy and sorrow, was fought in Paulina! She had one eye declined for the loss of her husband, another elevated that the oracle was fulfilled. Shakspeare. The combat now by courage must be tried. Dry. CO'MBATANT. n. s. [combattant, Fr.] 1. He that fights with another; duellist; antagonist in arms. So frown'd the mighty combatants, that hell Grew darker at their frown. Milton's Par. Lost. Who, single combatant, Duel'd their armies rank'd in proud array, Like despairing combatants they strive against you, as if they had beheld unveiled the magical shield of Ariosto, which dazzled the beholders with too much brightness. Dryden. 2. A champion. When any of those combatants strips his terms of ambiguity, I shall think him a champion for knowledge. Locke. Locke. 3. With for before the thing defended. Men become combatants for those opinions. CO'MBER. n. s. [from comb.] He whose trade it is to disentangle wool, and lay it smooth for the spinner. COMBINATE. adj. [from combine.] Betrothed; promised; settled by compact. A word of Shakspeare. She lost a noble brother; with him the sinew of her fortune, her marriage dowry; with both, her combinate husband, this well-seeming Angelo. Shakspeare. COMBINATION. n. s. [from combine.] 1. Union for some certain purpose; association; league. A combination is of 4. These natures, from the moment of their first combination, have been and are for ever inseparable. Hocker. Resolution of compound bodies by fire, does not so much enrich mankind as it divides the bodies; as upon the score of its making new compounds by new combinations. Ingratitude is always in combination with pride and hard-heartedness. Boyle, South. Copulation of ideas in the mind. They never suffer any ideas to be joined in their understandings, in any other or stronger combination than what their own nature and correspondence give them. Locke. 5. COMBINATION is used in mathematicks, to denote the variation or alteration of any number of quantities, letters, sounds, or the like, in all the different manners possible. Thus the number of possible changes or combinations of the twenty-four letters of the alphabet, taken first two by two, then three by three, &c. amount to 1,391,724,288, 887,252,999,425,128,493,402,200. Chambers. To COMBINE. v. a. [combiner, French; binos jungere, Latin.] COMBU'ST. adj. [from comburo, combustum, Latin.] When a planet is not above eight degrees and a half distant from the sun, either before or after him, it is said to be combust, or in combustion. · Harris. COMBUSTIBLE. adj. [comburo, combustum, Lat.] Having the quality of catching fire; susceptible of fire. Charcoals made out of the wood of oxycedar, are white, because their vapours are rather sulphureous than of any other combustible substance. Broton's Vulgar Errours. Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter; it assimilates before it destroys it. South. They are but strewed over with a little penitential ashes; and will, as soon as they meet with combustible matter, flame out. Decay of Piety. The flame shall still remain; Nor, till the fuel perish, can decay, By nature form'd on things combustible to prey. Dryden. COMBUSTIBLENESS. n. s. [from combustible.] Aptness to take fire. COMBUSTION. n. s. [French.] 1. Conflagration; burning; consumption by fire. The future combustion of the earth is to be ushered in and accompanied with violent impressions upon nature. Burnet. 2. Tumult; hurry; hubbub; bustle; hurlyburly. Mutual combustions, bloodsheds, and wastes, may enforce them through very faintness, after the experience of so endless miseries. Hooker. Prophesying, with accents terrible, Of dire combustion, and confus'd events, New-hatch'd to th' woeful time. Shakspeare. Those cruel wars between the houses of York and Lancaster brought all England into an horrible combustion. Raleigh. How much more of pow'r, But say, from whence this new combustion springs? Dryden. The comet moves in an inconceivable fury and combustion, and at the same time with an exact regularity. Addison's Guardian. To COME. v. n. pret. came; particip. come. [coman, Saxon; komen, Dutch; kommen, German.] 1. To remove from a distant to a nearer place; to arrive: opposed to go. And troubled blood through his pale face was seen To come and go, with tidings from the heart. Fairy Queen. Cæsar will come forth to-day. Shakspeare. Coming to look on you, thinking you dead, I spake unto the crown as having sense. Shaks. The colour of the king doth come and go, Between his purpose and his conscience. Staks. The christians having stood almost all the day in order of battle in the sight of the enemy, vainly expecting when he should come forth to give them battle, returned at night unto their camp. Knolles' History of the Turks. "Tis true that since the senate's succour came, They grow more bold. Dryden's Tyrannick Love. This christian woman!Ah! there the mischief comes. 2. To draw near; to advance toward. Rorve. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Shakspeare. 3. To move in any manner toward another; implying the idea of being received by another, or of tending toward another. The word always respects the place to which the motion tends, not that place which it leaves; yet this meaning is sometimes almost evanescent and imperceptible. I did hear 4. The galloping of horse: who was 't came by? Shakspeare's Macbeth Bid them cover the table, serve in the meat, and we will come in to dinner. Shakspeare As soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the first fruits. 2 Chronicles. Knowledge is a thing of their own invention, or which they come to by fair reasoning. Burnet. It is impossible to come near your lordship, at any time, without receiving some favour. Congreat. None may come in view, but such as are pertinent. Locke. No perception of bodies at a distance may be accounted for by the motion of particles coming from them, and striking on our organs. Locke They take the colour of what is laid before them, and as soon lose and resign it to the next that happens to come in their way. Locke God has made the intellectual world harmonious and beautiful without us; but it will never come into our heads all at once. Lucke. To proceed; to issue. Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life. 2 Samuel. 5. To advance from one stage or con dition to another. Trust me, I am exceeding weary. Is it come to that? I had thought weariness durst not have attacked one of so high blood. Shakspeare's Henry W. Though he would after have turned his teeth upon Spain, yet he was taken order with before it came to that. Bacon. Seditious tumults, and seditious fames, differ no more but as brother and sister; if it come to that, that the best actions of a state are taken in an ill sense and traduced. Bacon. His soldiers had skirmishes with the Numidians, so that once the skirmish was like to Knolles come to a just battle. When it came to that once, they that had most flesh wished they had had less. L'Estrange Every new sprung passion is a part of the action, except we conceive nothing action till the players come to blows. Dryden. The force whereby bodies cohere is very much greater when they come to immediate contact, than when they are at ever so small a finite distance. Cheyne's Philosophical Principles, 6. To be brought to some condition either for better or worse, implying some degree of casualty: with to. One said to Aristippus, 't is a strange thing why men should rather give to the poor than to philosophers. He answered, because they think themselves may sooner come to be poor than to be philosophers. Bacon's Apophthegms. not. His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it Job. He being come to the estate, keeps a busy family. Locke. You were told your master had gone to a tavern, and come to some mischance. Swift. 7. To attain any condition or character. |