colubrina (1)

[Lat. neut. pl. of colubrinus genus Nardosma. ( Treas . of Bot .) Water Coltsfoot : Nuphar lutea . ful pleasure. *2. Fig .: A wanton disposition; a love of youth- "Well said, lord Sands; Your colt's - tooth is not cast yet? -No, my lord; nor shall not, while I have a stump." Shakesp.: Henry VIII ., 1. 3. To have a colt's - tooth : To be fond of youthful immovably The sub-order may be divided thus: Section I. Maxillary bones armed only with solid teeth. The snakes of this section are innocuous. Families: (1) Colubride, (2) Boide, and (3) Tortri- cide. Section II. Maxillary bones having solid teeth, mixed with long grooved fangs. Sub-section 1. Venenoza. Fangs placed at the anterior part of the maxillary bones, with the solid teeth behind them. Undoubtedly venomous. Families: (1) Elapide, and (2) Hydrophide. Sub-section 2. Suspect a. Fangs situated at the back of the jaw, behind the common teeth. Suspected to be venomous. Families: (1) Homa lop side, (2) Dipsadidæ, and (3) Den drop hide. ( Dallas , & c .) IMG:content-0222.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0223.png:[blocks in formation] lip, a crenulated inner one, a small lamellar opercu- lum. Recent species known, 205; fo il, 8. The former are from the subtropical and tropical parts of the Old and New Worlds; the latter from the Tertiary. Cô-lăm-bi-a, s. [After Columbus, the discov- erer.] A name sometimes given to this country. col-um-bi-ad, s. [From Columbia , a name given to this country.] Ordnance: A species of heavy cannon, invented by Colonel Bomford, of the United States Army, and used in the war of 1812. It combined certain qualities of the gun, howitzer, and mortar. col-um-bic, a. [Mod. Lat. columb(ium), and Eng. adj. suff. -ic .] Chem.: Pertaining to or derived from columbium. côl-um-bi-dæ, s. pl . [Lat. columba , † columbus a dove, and fem. pl. adj. suff. -idœ .] Ornith.: A family of birds, the typical one of the sub-order Columbacei. The bill is moderate and compre ed, having at its base a soft skin in which the nostrils are placed. The feet have three divided toes before and one behind. For the first four see Columbus , the fifth is the Pa enger pigeon, Ecto- pistes migrator i us . 1. Pertaining to a dove or pigeon. 2. Dove-colored, the color of the throat of many bine has droop- ing purplish- blue flowers with five flat sepals; five pet- thrice ternate, the others singly ternate. [AQUILEGIA.] are of several sorts and colors. They flower in the end of May, when few other flowers shew."- IMG:content-0224.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0225.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0226.png:[blocks in formation] has a dove-like character.] Drama : A female character in the Italian com- Harlequin. female dancer in the English pan- tomime. cô-lăm-bite, s. [Mod. Lat., ., columbium (q. v.), and suff. -ite ( Min . ) (q. v.).] IMG:content-0227.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] ancient orders of architecture. There are five orders of architecture, each having its own proper style of column. [ARCHITECTURE.] The Grecian-Doric has no base, and in some other respects differs from the Roman Doric, which is an imitation of it. It was short, powerful and ma ive, and very simple in character. Its height was between seven and eight diameters. The Ionic column was distinguished by its volutes, and was nine diameters in height. The Corinthian, which was ten diameters high, was adorned with leaves, ., and was noted for its lightne and richne of decoration. Of these the Doric and Ionic were the earliest and oftenest employed in Greek architecture. The Corinthian was preferred by the Romans. The parts of a column are, the plinth, the torus, the shaft, the astragal, the neck, the ova to, the abacus (see these words). Above these rose the entablature. 2. Anat .: The name given to various pillar-like structures of the bodily frame. Thus the posterior vesicular column is the name given by Clarke to a compact group of large cells occupying the inner half of the cervix in the posterior cornu in the spinal cord. ( Quain .) Column is the English rendering of column a , and columns of columne , which are used as anatomical terms. [COLUMN A, COLUMNE.] 3. Zoology (1) The cylindrical body of a Sea-anemone. (2) The jointed stem or peduncle of a stalked crinoid. The axis of a crinoid which, when the fleshy envelope is removed, separates into a multitude of joints or pieces. 4. Bot . A solid body into which the filaments in some plants, such as Stapelia, Stylidium, and Rafflesia, are combined. In the Orchids, Richard called the column a gynostemium. ( Lindley .) 5. Military : (1) A body of troops in deep files and narrow front, opposed to line , which is extended in front and thin in depth. (2) A body of troops, irrespective of the manner of formation. "But the clan, deprived of the leader whom it adored, and aware that he had withdrawn himself in ill humor, was no longer the same terrible column which had a few days before kept so well the vow to perish or to conquer." -Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xiii. 6. Nautical : (See extract.) "A column means any number of ships in a distinct group, whether in line ahead, abreast or otherwise. A column is said to be in line ahead when the ships are in one line ahead of each other. A column is said to be in line abreast when the ships are ranged in one line abeam of each other."- Manual of Naval Evolutions; Defin., pp. 30-1. (1874.) 7. Printing, Writing , .: A perpendicular set of lines separated from another set by a line or blank space; as, A column of print, a column of figures, . 8. Distilling : A ve el containing a vertical series of chambers used in stills for continuous distillation. ( Knight .) 9. Calico - printing : The name of a certain description of steam apparatus by which steam is applied to cloths topically treated with a mixture of dye extracts and mordants, in order to fix the colors. ( Knight .) B. As adj .: (See the compounds.)