Cole

[A. S. caul, cawl, or cawel; Lat. caulis; Gr. kaulos.] ( Hort.) A variety of cabbage ( Bra ica nap us ), which has heart-shaped leaves. Cold brook Springs, in Ma achusetts, a post village of Worcester co., on a small stream of the same name. Cole, Thomas, an American landscape-painter, B. in Lancashire, England, 1801. His father, in 1819, emigrated to the U. States, and C. early evincing a predilection for ened at one end, which is properly tempered, so that it may be used for cutting metal. and Book of Joshua Critically Examined (1862), in which he denies the divine origin of the first books of the Old Test., caused an attempt to depose him. D. 1884. Coleophʻyllous, a . [Gr. koleos , sheath, and phyllon , leaf.] ( Bot . ) Having the leaves inclosed within a sheath. Coleoptera, n . pl . [Gr. koleos, and pteron, a wing] ( Zool . ) The Beetles, a sub-ord. of insects, comprehending those in which the 1st pair of wings have the consistence of horn, and serve as defensive coverings to the 2d pair or true wings, which are of large size and folded transversely when not in use. By means of this mechanism the Coleoptera are enabled to burrow in the soil, or bore the trunks of trees, without injury to their delicate organs of flight, which are the true or second pair of wings. These, being of ample size, are peculiarly IMG:content-0255.jpg:[graphic]