CPage 413
- English Word Colical Definition Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, colic.
- English Word Colicky Definition Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder.
- English Word Colicroot Definition A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.
- English Word Colies Definition of Coly
- English Word Colin Definition The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite.
- English Word Coliseum Definition The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world.
- English Word Colitis Definition An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis.
- English Word Coll Definition To embrace.
- English Word Colla Definition of Collum
- English Word Collaborateur Definition See Collaborator.
- English Word Collaboration Definition The act of working together; united labor.
- English Word Collaborator Definition An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor.
- English Word Collagen Definition The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.
- English Word Collagenous Definition Containing or resembling collagen.
- English Word Collapse Definition To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses.
- English Word Collapse Definition To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance.
- English Word Collapse Definition A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.
- English Word Collapse Definition A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
- English Word Collapse Definition Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.
- English Word Collapsed Definition of Collapse