Vocabulary : Colonizing to Color

Colonizing : of Colonize
Colonnade : A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.
Colony : 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. ;; The district or country colonized; a settlement. ;; A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris. ;; A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range. ;; A cell family or group of common origin, mostly of unicellular organisms, esp. among the lower algae. They may adhere in chains or groups, or be held together by a gelatinous envelope. ;; A cluster or aggregation of zooids of any compound animal, as in the corals, hydroids, certain tunicates, etc. ;; A community of social insects, as ants, bees, etc.
Colophany : See Colophony.
Colophene : A colorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene.

Colophon : 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 : A coarsely granular variety of garnet.
Colophony : Rosin.
Coloquintida : See Colocynth.
Color : 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. ;; Any hue distinguished from white or black. ;; The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion. ;; That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors. ;; That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance. ;; Shade or variety of character; kind; species. ;; 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). ;; 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. ;; To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, pa

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