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The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world. [Written also Colosseum.]

See Collaborator.

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

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

An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers to take only joint action in the (European) Eastern Question.

ing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts. The connoisseur is "one who knows," as opposed to the dilettant, who only "thinks he knows." Fairholt.

State of being a connoisseur.

One of the corneas of a compound eye in the invertebrates. Carpenter.

the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest. That noted corypheus [Dr. John Owen] of the Independent faction. South.

Color; -- chiefly used in a few French phrases, as couler de rose, color of rose; and hence, adjectively, rose-colored; roseate.

Counterflory.

An incubator for sickly infants, esp. those prematurely born.

(kroitn. See Kreutzer.

Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.

a professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.

According to strictness (of etiquette, rule, or the like); obligatory; strictly required.

To deprive of the feudal character or form.

A déjeuner. Take a déjeuné of muskadel and eggs. B. Jonson.

A breakfast; sometimes, also, a lunch or collation.

In God's name; certainly. [Obs.] Chaucer.