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Inhabiting a tube; as, tubicolous worms.

Any hydroid which has tubular chitinous stems.

To unhorse. [Obs. & R.] Shak.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C11H18O2, of the propiolic acid series, obtained indirectly from undecylenic acid as a white crystalline substance.

Having the surface of a uniform color.

An extensive family of butterflies, including those known as skippers (Hesperiadæ).

Of or pertaining to a city; urban. [R.]

A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or tubular cases in which they dwell.

Having various colors; changeable in color. "Versicolor, sweet- smelling flowers." Burton.

A color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium; a color the vehicle of which is water; -- so called in distinction from oil color.

One who paints in water colors.

A tantalate of uranium, yttrium, and calcium, of a brown or black color.

Same as Socle.

ealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possible. Coleridge.

A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. Fairholt.

The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

nd marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus.

approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; -- also of quantity, number, time. "There fell . . . about three thousand men." Exod. xxii. 28.

A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.