COL SUPPLEMENT. CON 



distinguished from hot blast, or heated air whiteness or gire white light are said to be 

 forced through furnaces for the same pur- optically complementary to each other, aa 

 poe. The cast iron produced from the hot the two colours orange and blue, or green 

 blast furnace is not equal in toughness to the and red. 



cold blast iron, but it has some counter- COMPRESSIBILITY OF BODIES, that quality 

 balancing advantages iu elasticity and other of bodies by which their volume or magni- 

 respects. tude may be compressed into smaller dimen- 



COLLIN, the purest form of gelatine. From sions. Some liquids, more especially water, 

 the slowness with which it diffuses into were long believed to be incompressible ; but 

 water it has been taken as th type of all this has been disproved by later experiments, 

 substances of slow diffusion in water, which so that no bodies are absolutely incom- 

 are thence called Colloids, as distinguished pressible. A weight of two atmospheres is 

 from Crystalloids, which diffuse rapidly ia found to produce the following results of 



water. 



COLLOID. See COLLIN. 



COLLUM, the point intermediate between 

 the stem and root of a plant from whence 

 both diverge. It becomes obliterated in 

 course of growth. 



compression : 



Mercury to C'000,003 of ite I ulk. 

 Sea water 0-000,040 

 Olive oil C'000,048 

 Spirits of Wine 0'000,066 

 CON SORDINI, a direction in music, 



COLLUTOUIUM, a lotion for rinsing the generally written C. S., signifying that, if the 

 mouth (from colluo and 01, " I wash the piece be for the pianoforte, the passage is to 

 mouth"). | be performed with the dampers down ; if for 



COI.LYRIDTANS, a sect of fanatics of the the violin, with the mute on. 

 fourth century who offered little cakes in CONACRE, a system of agricultural pay- 

 honour of the Virgin Mary. ments formerly prevailing in Ireland, of 



COLLYRIUM, a lotion for the eve, or eye- paying wages in whole or in part by small 

 water. At one time the term denoted I temporary grants of land, a most degrading 

 lotions to restrain or stop inordinate dis- and precarious condition of things, which had 



Charge?. 



COLOBOMA, congenital adhesions of the 

 eyelids, and fissures of the upper eyelid. 



COLOGNE EARTH, a variety of umber said 

 to be of vegetable origin. It forms a deep 

 brown pigment. 



the effect of tempting the Irish peasantry to 

 cling to the least profitable investment of 

 their industry, as agricultural labour is and 

 always has been iu all nations, and to the 

 most degrading condition of their intelli- 

 gence. The alteration of the Irish land 



COLOSSAL, any work, chiefly in sculpture, laws under Mr. Gladstone's govern- 

 of extraordinary dimensions. The taste for) meut only introduced a variation with- 

 colossal sculpture appears to have prevailed out a remedy. The fact is that there is 

 widely among the ancients. The origin of not enough of laud in all Ireland to 

 them has been ascribed to Sesostris. I remunerate adequately those who persist in 



COLOSTRUM, the first milk given by a cow clinging to its cultivation ; and laws impair- 

 after calving. ing the absolute right of property in land 



COLUMBARIUM, a pigeon-house or dove- 1 can only injure the market value of the 

 cot ; also a recess in the wall of a cemetery ; article without rendering it to the smallest 



made to hold cinerary urns. 



COLUMBITE, a mineral composed of colum- 

 bio acid and the oxides of iron and manganese. 



extent more productive. 



CONCEPT, the result of mental conception, 

 as distinct from the process of conception, 



COMITY OF NATIONS, those usages or Jin logic. 



international practices by which the exac-j CONCEPTUALISM, the system of Scholastic 

 tions of strict right are modified between j philosophy held by Abelard, admitting the 

 civilized nations, and concessions of an existence of universals as ideas or mental 

 amicable and friendly character made. j conceptions ; and so differing from the 



COMMUNISM, those doctrines as to the Greek Realism, and the Nominalism of 

 rights of property which, though slightly Roscelin, who maintained that universals 

 differing from Socialism, have not been very! has no existence except as propositions or 

 distinctively defined. The theory is that all i words. 



property is to be held in common or for the) CONCERTED PIECE, a piece of music in 

 common good, and all labour to be diverted which several solo instruments or voices 

 in the same direction. The evil is that a take prominent parts, 

 system of artificial regulation and inter- CONCHIFKRA, all molluscs protected by a 

 ference is insisted on, which is tantamount bivalve shell have been so called by Latreille 

 to the abolition of all individual liberty and and others. 



all the motives for individual enterprise, i CONCRETE TERM, any term in logic which 

 The excesses to which such silly theories expresses the attribute along with the sub- 

 lead are best illustrated by what occurred in ject or object, as, " ha.ppy," "brave," 

 Paris after the Franco-German war of 1873. j " patient." Abstract terms are those which 



COMPLEMENTARY COLOURS, auy two express the attributes separately or alone, as, 

 olours which when blended together make " happiness." " courage," " patience." 

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