अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / 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.

The active medicinal principle of colocynth; a bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside.

A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne.

An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.

A large size of paper for drawings. See under Paper.

See Calumbin.

See Calumba.

That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion.]

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.

The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.

The office, rank, or commission of a colonel.

Colonelcy.

A colonist.

Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.

Of or pertaining to husbandmen.

of Colony

A member or inhabitant of a colony.

See Colitis.

The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies.

A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.