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A staircase in a spiral form. En caracole ( Etym: [F.], spiral; -- said of a staircase.

An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an inferior quality of jewerly is made.

e beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk. Chocolate house, a house in which customers may be served with chocolate. -- Chocolate nut. See Cacao.

A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color.

To coat or paint with clearcole.

A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color.

One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.

Of the same color; of uniform color. [R.] "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.

Of the same color throughout.

Of the color of cream; light yellow. "Cream-colored horses." Hazlitt.

A colony of the British Empire not having an elective magistracy or a parliament, but governed by a chief magistrate (called Governor) appointed by the Crown, with executive councilors nominated by him and not elected by the people.

To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate. The decollated head of St. John the Baptist. Burke.

Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells.

The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.

The upper border or part of a décolleté corsage.

Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.

Beheading. [R.] By a speedy dethroning and decolling of the king. Parliamentary History (1648).

To deprive of color; to bleach.

A substance which removes color, or bleaches.

Deprived of color.