colombic

[Eng. colomb(o), and suff. -ic.] Derived from or existing in calumba. colombic acid, calumbic acid, s. Chem.: An acid which occurs in colombo-root, Jateorrhiza calumba , C21H2206 H2O. The alcoholic extract of the root is treated with lime-water, and the solution is decomposed by hydrochloric acid. Colombic acid is precipitated as white flakes, insoluble in water but soluble in alcohol; the alcoholic solution gives a white precipitate with plumbic acetate. côl-om-bin, s . [CALUMBINE.] Chem. A bitter substance contained in colomboroot, obtained by treating the extract with ether. It crystallizes in colorle prisms, which have a strong bitter taste, and di olves in concentrated sulphuric acid, forming a yellow solution which afterward becomes red; on adding water a rust colored precipitate is formed. cô-lăm-bò, col-om-bạ, cõl-um-bạ, s. [CALUMBA.] "The 'Calumba' plant furnishes the medicinal Co lombo root." - Simmonds: Comm. Prod. of the Veget. Kingdom. colombo-root, s. [CALUMBA.] cô-lôn, s. [Gr. kōlon =a member.] 1. Gram.: A point (:) used to make a pause greater than that of a comma or a semicolon, and le than that of a period. Its use is not very exactly fixed, being confounded by most with the semicolon. It was used, before punctuation was refined, to mark almost any sense le than a period. To apply it properly, we should place it, perhaps, only where the sense is continued without depend colonization *col-one, s . [Lat. colonus.) A clown, a rustic. [CLOWN.] "A country colone toil and moil." Burton: Anat . Melanch . Dem. to the Reader. colonel (pron. kür-nel), *colonell, *coronel, coronell, s . [Fr. colonel ; 0. Fr. colonnel, from Ital. colonello =(1) a little column, (2) a colonel, from colonna =a column; Lat. column a .] chief commander of a regiment; a field officer of the highest rank next to the general officer. IMG:content-0195.png:[graphic] IMG:content-0196.png:[blocks in formation] the 33d regiment of the line, "-Gleig: Translation of Brialmont's Life of Wellington, p. 157. *col-o-něl-ling, pr . par . or s. [COLONEL, v.] colonelship (pron. kür'-nel-ship), s . [Eng. colonel; -ship.] 1. The same as COLONELCY (q. v.). *2. The feelings or manners of a colonel. "While he continued a subaltern, he complained against the pride of colonels toward their officers; yet, in a few minutes after he had received his commi ion for a regiment, he confe ed that colonelship was coming fast upon him."-Swift. *col-on-er, s. [Lat. colonus .] A colonist, a IMG:content-0197.png:[blocks in formation] cannot be defined by undeviating rules, various authors insisting upon purely arbitrary methods of employment. Charles Dickens, for instance, uses this point probably more freely than almost any other English author. In this country the use of the colon is much restricted, and it is principally employed to separate introductory or explanatory remarks from that which follows, especially if that introduction ends with the words as follows , thus , the following , .; e. g., "Now the birth of Jesus was te this wise Here follows an account of that event.]" Or it may be used to introduce a direct quotation; e. g., "The honorable gentleman in closing said: [Here follow the remarks made by the speaker.]" Other instances of its use occur occa sionally, but these are the principal. The colon was first brought into use by Thrasy mach us about 373 B. C., and was known to Aristotle. It was introduced into English literature in the sixteenth century, A. D. ( Haydn .) In the Prayer the division, originally for musical purposes, of book version of the Psalms a colon is used to mark each verse into two portions. 2. Anat .: The greatest and widest of all the intestines, about eight or nine hands' breadth long. It begins where the ilium ends, in the cavity of the os ilium on the right side; from thence ascending by the kidney on the same side, it pa es under the concave side of the liver, to which it is sometimes tied, as likewise to the gall-bladder, which tinges yellow in that place: then it runs under the bottom it it in.] C6H84023, contained in colocynth. It crystallizes it is also knit: from thence it turns down to the Chem : A bitter substance, said to be a glucoside, of the stomach to the spleen in the left side, to which left kidney; and thence pa ing, in form of an S, in white bitter crystals, white soluble in water, alcohol, and in ether. When boiled with dilute terminates at the upper part of the os sacrum in sulphuric acid it yields 77 per cent. of sugar, and the rectum. (Quincy.) a resinous ma which is called colocynthein. "The contents of the colon are of a sour, fetid, acid Colon - bacillus : The microbe of Asiatic cholera. 3. Entom .: A genus of Beetles, family Silphide. title was abolished again and the Colonies placed under the Home Secretary, and in 1801 the Secre tary for War. In 1854 the original arrangement was reverted to, and there have been Colonial Secre taries ever since.