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To colonize again.

The punctuation mark [;] indicating a separation between parts or members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma.

A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines. Crabb.

A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty. Adjutant general (a) (Mil.), the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S.…

Of or pertaining to Æolia or Æolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; æolic; as, the Æolian dialect.

the nature of, analogy; expressing or implying analogy. When a country which has sent out colonies is termed the mother country, the expression is analogical. J. S. Mill.

uces a ridiculous effect. Example: Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war, Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl ANTICLINAL An`ti*cli"nal, a. Etym: [Pref. anti- + Gr.

In Spain and countries colonized by Spain, a village, ward, or district outside a town or city to whose jurisdiction it belongs.

Massachusetts, which had been called the Colony of Massachusetts Bay; -- a nickname.

An usher in the legislature of British colonies. Cowell. Committed to the custody of the Black Rod. Macaulay.

A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.

A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.

s a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife.

Taking or conferring rank by brevet; as, a brevet colonel; a brevet commission.

An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.

A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa.

vidual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.).

the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the ermy.

, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.

to interfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent colony. Palfrey.