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A custom, idea, feature of government, or the like, characteristic of a colony.

The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion. Give color to my pale cheek. Shak.

ctured transversely, with a cup joint, showing a concave surface above. This structure is characteristic of certain igneous rocks, as basalt, and is due to contraction in cooling.

Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups.

mpromise and barter. Burke. An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions. Hallam.

Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic.

The quality of being connubial; something characteristics of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness. Some connubialities which had begun to pass between Mr. and Mrs. B. Dickens.

To make a low repeated cry or sound, like the characteristic note of pigeons or doves. The stockdove only through the forest cooes, Mournfully hoarse. Thomson.

Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast; as, cosmic speed. "Cosmic ranges of time." Tyndall.

The science of the form and characteristics of the skull. [R.]

Creatural; characteristic of a creature. [R.] "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Creoles. -- n.

Having the characteristics of a cretin. "Cretinous stupefaction." Ruskin.

Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile. -- n.

To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance. "The cock had crown." Bayron. The morning cock crew loud. Shak.

A mucilagenous secretion of certain birds found as the characteristic ingredient of edible bird's-nests.

Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal. Thy currish spirit Governed a wolf. Shak. Some currish plot, -- some trick. Lockhart. -- Cur"rish*ly, adv. -- Cur"rish*ness, n.

Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean architecture.

A hydrocarbon radical, C10H21, never existing alone, but regarded as the characteristic constituent of a number of compounds of the paraffin series.

To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman.