Colonist (n.) A member or inhabitant of a colony.
Colonitis (n.) See Colitis.
Colonization (n.) The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies.
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.
Colonized (imp. & p. p.) of Colonize
Colonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Colonize
Colonize (v. t.) To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in.
Colonize (v. i.) To remove to, and settle in, a distant country; to make a colony.
Colonizer (n.) One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist.
Colonnade (n.) A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.
Colonies (pl. ) of Colony
Colony (n.) 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.
Colony (n.) The district or country colonized; a settlement.
Colony (n.) A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.
Colony (n.) A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.
Colophany (n.) See Colophony.
Colophene (n.) A colorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene.
Colophon (n.) 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.
Colophonite (n.) A coarsely granular variety of garnet.
Colophony (n.) Rosin.
Coloquintida (n.) See Colocynth.
Color (n.) A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.
Color (n.) Any hue distinguished from white or black.
Color (n.) The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion.
Color (n.) That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.
Color (n.) That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance.
Color (n.) Shade or variety of character; kind; species.
Color (n.) A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey).
Color (n.) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court.
Colored (imp. & p. p.) of Color
Coloring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Color
Color (v. t.) To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain.
Color (v. t.) To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices.
Color (v. t.) To hide.
Color (v. i.) To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.
Colorable (a.) Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.
Colorado beetle () A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
Colorado group () A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.
Coloradoite (n.) Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
Colorate (a.) Colored.
Coloration (n.) The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored.
Colorature (n.) Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.
Color-blind (a.) Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.
Colored (a.) Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
Colored (a.) Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description.
Colored (a.) Of some other color than black or white.
Colored (a.) Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.
Colored (a.) Of some other color than green.
Colorific (a.) Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.
Colorimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.
Coloring (n.) The act of applying color to; also, that which produces color.
Coloring (n.) Change of appearance as by addition of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation.
Colorist (n.) One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance.
Colorless (a.) Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.
Colorless (a.) Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style; definitions should be colorless.
Colormen (pl. ) of Colorman
Colorman (n.) A vender of paints, etc.
Color sergeant () See under Sergeant.
Colossal (a.) Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue.
Colossal (a.) Of a size larger than heroic. See Heroic.
Colossean (a.) Colossal.
Colosseum (n.) The amphitheater of Vespasian in Rome.
Colossi (pl. ) of Colossus
Colossuses (pl. ) of Colossus
Colossus (n.) 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.
Colossus (n.) Any man or beast of gigantic size.
Colostrum (n.) The first milk secreted after delivery; biestings.
Colostrum (n.) A mixture of turpentine and the yolk of an egg, formerly used as an emulsion.
Colotomy (n.) An operation for opening the colon
Colour (n.) See Color.
Colp (n.) See Collop.
Colportage (n.) The distribution of religious books, tracts, etc., by colporteurs.
Colporter (n.) Same as Colporteur.
Colporteur (n.) A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books.
Colstaff (n.) A staff by means of which a burden is borne by two persons on their shoulders.
Colt (n.) The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.
Colt (n.) A young, foolish fellow.
Colt (n.) A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy.
Colt (v. i.) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
Colt (v. t.) To horse; to get with young.
Colt (v. t.) To befool.
Colter (n.) A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.
Coltish (a.) Like a colt; wanton; frisky.
Coltsfoot (n.) A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine.
Colt's tooth () See under Colt.
Coluber (n.) A genus of harmless serpents.
Colubrine (a.) like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber.
Colubrine (a.) Like a snake; cunning; crafty.
Colugo (n.) 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.
Columba (n.) See Calumba.
Columbae (n. pl.) An order of birds, including the pigeons.
Columbaria (pl. ) of Columbarium
Columbarium (n.) A dovecote or pigeon house.
Columbarium (n.) A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns.
Columbaries (pl. ) of Columbary
Columbary (n.) A dovecote; a pigeon house.
Columbate (n.) A salt of columbic acid; a niobate. See Columbium.
Columbatz fly () See Buffalo fly, under Buffalo.
Columbella (n.) A genus of univalve shells, abundant in tropical seas. Some species, as Columbella mercatoria, were formerly used as shell money.
Columbia (n.) America; the United States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus, the discoverer.