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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. Swift.

A colonist. [Obs.] Holland

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

The state or quality of, or the relationship involved in, being colonial.

Of or pertaining to husbandmen. [Obs.]

A member or inhabitant of a colony.

See Colitis.

Tha act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.

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

To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in. Bacon. They that would thus colonize the stars with inhabitants. Howell.

One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist. Bancroft.

A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.

r country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America. The first settlers of New England were the best of Englishmen, well educated, devout Christians, and zealous lovers of liberty. There was never a colony formed of better materials. Ames.

See Colophony.

A colorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene.

ate of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book. The colophon, or final description, fell into disuse, and . . . the title page had become the principal direct means of identifying the book. De Morgan. The book was uninjured from title page to colophon. Sir W. Scott.…

A coarsely granular variety of garnet.

Rosin.