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L. pl. of Colon.

Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries.

An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis.

An operation for opening the colon

An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army.

A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission.

ederation among themselves. Bacon. This was no less than a political confederation of the colonies of New England. Palfrey.

three years. The Continental Congress, an assembly of deputies from the thirteen British colonies in America, appointed to deliberate in respect to their common interests. They first met in 1774, and from time thereafter until near the close of the Revolution. -- The Federal Congress, the assembly of representatives…

A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony.

s; bordering upon; contiguous. This conformed so many of them as were conterminous to the colonies and garrisons, to the Roman laws. Sir M. Hale.

Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money. The army before Boston was designated as the Continental army, in contradistinction to that under General Gage, which was called the "Ministerial army." W. Irving. Continental Congress. See under Con…

further restrictions, and declaring every ship going to or from a port of England or her colonies to be lawful prize.

share in any act or effect. We are engaged in war; the secretary of state calls upon the colonies to contribute. Burke.

A colonel. [Obs.] Spenser.

ship. -- General Court, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judical power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] -- To pay one's court, to seek to gain favor by attentions. "Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his court to Tissaphernes." Jowett. -- To put out of cou…

One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico.

To lead forth. [A Latinism] He should hither deduce a colony. Selden.

tory remote from the kingdom or state to which it belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, Great Britain has its dependencies in Asia, Africa, and America.

d first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony. Palfrey.

s prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts. This disobedient spirit in the colonies. Burke. Disobedient unto the word of the Lord. 1 Kings xiii. 26.