<B>colostomy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the making of an artificial opening into the colon by surgery. </DL>
<A NAME="colostral">
<B>colostral, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, having to do with, or caused by colostrum. <BR> <I>Ex. Foals born from dams which have been immunized or have recovered from natural infection acquire immunity. ... This colostral immunity gradually wanes, but is usually protective for 6 to 8 months (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="colostrum">
<B>colostrum, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the thin, yellowish milk secreted by a mammal just before and for a few days after the birth of young. It is especially rich in protein and helps establish both digestion and natural immunity. <BR> <I>Ex. Colostrum contains whatever antibodies to disease the mother may previously have developed through having the disease herself (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="colotomy">
<B>colotomy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a surgical incision into the colon. </DL>
<B>colportage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the work done by colporteurs. </DL>
<A NAME="colporteur">
<B>colporteur, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who travels about and distributes Bibles, religious tracts, and the like. <DD><B> 2. </B>a hawker of books, broadsides, newspapers, or the like. </DL>
<A NAME="colt">
<B>colt, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a young horse, donkey, zebra, or other member of the same family of animals as the horse, especially a male horse less than four or five years old. <BR> <I>Ex. At two years old, the colt, if for harness, may be put to plow or harrow (John Baxter).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a young or inexperienced person. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Nautical.) the end of a rope used in flogging. <BR> <I>Ex. Perry scorned the cat-o'-nine-tails as effeminate. He preferred the "colt," a stout rope with a frayed end (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="colt">
<B>Colt, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Trademark.) <DD><B> 1. </B>an early type of American revolver. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of various firearms developed by the same maker. <BR> <I>Ex. The Colt automatic pistol is a deadly weapon in close fighting (James Hodgson).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="colter">
<B>colter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a sharp blade or disk on a plow to cut the earth ahead of the plowshare. Also, <B>coulter.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="coltish">
<B>coltish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like a colt; lively and frisky. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) He is still up to his old coltish tricks, beginning slowly and swerving badly (New Yorker).</I> adv. <B>coltishly.</B> noun <B>coltishness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="coltsfoot">
<B>coltsfoot, </B>noun, pl. <B>-foots.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a plant of the composite family, with yellow flowers and large, heart-shaped leaves which were formerly much used in medicine. </DL>
<B>colubrid, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with a family of nonpoisonous snakes having a flattened head and a long, tapering tail. <DD><I>noun </I> a snake of this family. </DL>
<A NAME="colubrine">
<B>colubrine, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with a snake; like a snake. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with a family of harmless snakes found throughout the world, including the king snakes and garter snakes. <BR> <I>Ex. The colubrine snakes ... differ in several important particulars from the Viperina (Timothy Holmes).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="colugo">
<B>colugo, </B>noun, pl. <B>-gos.</B> <B>=flying lemur.</B> <I>Ex. Scientists do not classify the flying lemur, or colugo, as a true lemur (W. M. Mann).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="columba">
<B>Columba, </B>noun, genitive <B>Columbae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a southern constellation near Canis Major. </DL>
<A NAME="columbae">
<B>Columbae, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the genitive of <B>Columba.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="columbarium">
<B>columbarium, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ia.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=dovecote.</B> <DD><B> 2a. </B>an underground vault with recesses in the walls to receive the ashes of the dead. <BR> <I>Ex. Of the four atom-bombproof Stockholm shelters, the one under Engelbrekt Church will serve as a columbarium (Time).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>one of these recesses. </DL>
<A NAME="columbary">
<B>columbary, </B>noun, pl. <B>-baries.</B> <B>=dovecote.</B></DL>
<A NAME="columbia">
<B>Columbia</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a name for the United States of America. Columbia is often represented as a woman dressed in red, white, and blue. </DL>
<A NAME="columbia">
<B>Columbia</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a breed of white-faced sheep raised for wool and meat. </DL>
<A NAME="columbiad">
<B>columbiad, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a heavy cannon with a smooth bore, formerly used in the United States. </DL>
<A NAME="columbian">
<B>Columbian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do with Columbia. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or belonging to America, especially the United States. <DD><B> 3. </B>of or having to do with Christopher Columbus. <DD><I>noun </I> a size of printing type (16 point). </DL>
<A NAME="columbic">
<B>columbic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> containing columbium (niobium), especially with a valence of 5. </DL>
<A NAME="columbine">
<B>columbine</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a plant whose flowers have petals shaped like hollow spurs. Wild columbines have red-and-yellow or blue-and-white flowers. Columbines are a genus of perennials belonging to the crowfoot family. The blue-and-white columbine is the state flower of Colorado; the red-and-yellow flowers are found especially in eastern North America. </DL>
<A NAME="columbine">
<B>columbine</B> (2), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with a dove; like a dove. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) dove-colored. </DL>
<A NAME="columbine">
<B>Columbine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a woman character in traditional Italian comedy and in pantomime, the sweetheart of Harlequin. </DL>
<A NAME="columbite">
<B>columbite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the native ore of niobium, a black compound containing iron and manganese, and often tantalum. </DL>
<A NAME="columbium">
<B>columbium, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the former name of the chemical element niobium. The name is still used in metallurgy. <BR> <I>Ex. Columbium has been used in experimental thermal nuclear reactors (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="columbo">
<B>columbo, </B>noun, pl. <B>-bos.</B> <B>=calumba.</B></DL>
<A NAME="columbous">
<B>columbous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> containing columbium (niobium), especially with a valence of 3. </DL>
<A NAME="columbusday">
<B>Columbus Day,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) the anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America in 1492, celebrated on October 12 until 1971 and now celebrated on the second Monday in October; Discovery Day. It is a legal holiday throughout the United States. </DL>
<A NAME="columella">
<B>columella, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mellae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a columnlike structure in an animal or plant. <BR> <I>Ex. As development proceeds, a dome-shaped wall forms, separating the inner framework, the columella, from the spore-producing portion which surrounds it (Fred W. Emerson).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a little column. </DL>
<A NAME="columellar">
<B>columellar, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a columella. A columellar lip is the inner lip of a univalve shell. </DL>
<A NAME="columelliform">
<B>columelliform, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> shaped like a columella or small pillar. </DL>
<A NAME="column">
<B>column, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a slender, upright structure; pillar; post. Columns are usually made of stone, wood, or metal, and are used as supports or ornaments to a building. <DD><B> b. </B>an upright support consisting essentially of a nearly cylindrical shaft with a base and capital. <DD><B> c. </B>a similar structure, often of great size, erected alone as a monument. <BR> <I>Ex. Trajan's column.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>anything that seems slender and upright like a column. <BR> <I>Ex. a column of mercury in a tube, the spinal column. (Figurative.) A column of smoke rose from the fire.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>an arrangement of people, especially soldiers, in several short rows one behind another, used especially for marching. <DD><B> 4. </B>a line of ships or aircraft, one behind another. <DD><B> 5. </B>any similar line of persons or things. <BR> <I>Ex. A long column of cars followed the procession down the street.</I> <DD><B> 6a. </B>a narrow division of a page reading from top to bottom, kept separate by lines or by blank spaces. Some newspapers have eight columns on a page. <DD><B> b. </B>a line or series of letters, figures, or other symbols arranged vertically. <BR> <I>Ex. Add the column of figures.</I> <DD><B> 7a. </B>a part of a newspaper or magazine used for a special subject or written by a special writer. <BR> <I>Ex. a financial column, the sports column.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>an article appearing in a column. Columns usually carry the name of the writer, and sometimes his picture. <DD><B> 8. </B>(Botany.) an upright cylindrical structure formed by the union of the stamens with the style, as in orchids. (Abbr:) col. </DL>
<A NAME="columna">
<B>columna, </B>noun, pl. <B>-nae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a column or pillar. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of various structures in the human body resembling a column. </DL>
<A NAME="columnar">
<B>columnar, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>like a column. <BR> <I>Ex. columnar stalagmites.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with a column or columns. <BR> <I>Ex. Greek columnar architecture is probably the outcome of the Greek mode of argumentation (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>made of columns. <BR> <I>Ex. a columnar structure.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>written or printed in columns. <BR> <I>Ex. Type the lists in columnar form.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(of rocks and crystals) having a columnlike structure; prismatic. </DL>
<A NAME="columned">
<B>columned, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having columns. <BR> <I>Ex. This columned and voluted pleasure villa (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>formed into columns. </DL>
