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shmen, well educated, devout Christians, and zealous lovers of liberty. There was never a colony formed of better materials. Ames.

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.

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

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.).

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

Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.

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

A member or inhabitant of a colony.

Tha act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.

To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in. Bacon. They that would thus colonize the stars with inhabitants. Howell.

One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist. Bancroft.

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

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.

A garden plot, usually about half an acre. [Cape Colony]

the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions. He hath established it [the earth], he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited. Is. xlv. 18. Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity! Hab…

stroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice. To explode and exterminate rank atheism. Bentley.

A body of felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony. Howitt.

ive organism (Volvox globator), once throught to be an animal, afterward supposed to be a colony of microscopic algæ. -- Globe of compression (Mil.), a kind of mine producing a wide crater; -- called also overcharged mine. -- Globe daisy (Bot.), a plant or flower of the genus Globularing, common in Europe. The flower…