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Colossal. [R.]

The amphitheater of Vespasian in Rome. [Also written Coliseum.]

ntic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes. He doth bestride the narrow world Like a colossus. Shak.

The first milk secreted after delivery; biestings.

An operation for opening the colon

See Color.

See Collop.

The distribution of religious books, tracts, etc., by colporteurs.

Same as Colporteur.

A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books.

A staff by means of which a burden is borne by two persons on their shoulders.

t knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Colt's tooth, an imperfect or superfluous tooth in young horses. -- To cast one's colt's tooth, to cease from youthful wantonness. "Your colt's tooth is not cast yet." Shak. -- To have a colt's tooth, to be wanton. Chaucer.…

s the empty cartridge case, and reloads ready for another shot. Called also Browning, and Colt-Browning, pistol.

a system using a patented revolving cylinder, holding six cartridges, patented by Samuel Colt, an American inventor, in 1835. With various modifications, it has for many years been the standard for the United States army.

See under Colt.

A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard. [Written also coulter.]

Like a colt; wanton; frisky. He was all coltish, full of ragery. Chaucer. -- Colt"ish*ly, adv. -- Colt"ish*ness, n.

silago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine. Butterbur coltsfoot (Bot.), a European plant (Petasites vulgaris).

A genus of harmless serpents.

like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber.