Colaptes 
Colaptes (ko-lap'tez), re. [NL. (Swainson, 1827), 
< Gr. Ko'MfrTeiv, peck as birds, carve, chisel.] A 
genus of woodpeckers, of the family Picidie. The 
bill is somewhat curved, scarcely or not at all ridged on 
the sides or beveled and truncate at the end ; and the 
plumage is brilliantly colored, with circular black spots 
on the under surface. It contains the golden-winged wood- 
pecker or flicker of the United States (C. auratuf), the red- 
shafted flicker (C. mexicanux), and other species, and some- 
times stands as the type of a subfamily Colaptince. See 
cut under Jlicker. 
Colaptinae (kol-ap-ti'ne), re. pi. [NL., < Colap- 
tes T -ince.] A subfamily of Picidce, named 
from the genus Colaptes. G. E. Gray, 1840. 
col arco (kol ar'ko). [It. : col, coiitr. of con il, 
with the (con, < L. cum, with; il, < L. Me, this) ; 
arco, bow: see com-, arc^, arch^.] In violin- 
playing, a direction to play 'with the bow,' as 
distinguished from pizzicato. 
colarin (kol'a-rin), n. [F., < It. collarino ; see 
collarino."] Same as collarino. 
colascione, re. See calascione. 
cola-seed (ko'la-sed), re. Same as cola-nut. 
Colaspis (ko-las'pis), n. [NL. (Fabricius).] A 
genus of beetles, of the family Chrysomelida?. 
. Jlavida (.Say) is a yel- 
lowish species, about a 
quarter of an inch long, 
the larva of which at- 
tacks the grape. 
eolation (ko-la'- 
shou), re. [< L. as 
if *colatio(n-), < co- 
lare, pp. colatits, 
strain : see colan- 
der.] The act of 
straining or filter- 
ing liquor by pass- 
ing it through a 
perforated vessel, as 
a colander. [Bare.] 
colatitude (ko-lat'i- 
tud), re. [< co-2 + 
latitude; = F. colati- 
tude.'] The comple- 
ment of the latitude 
that iS, the differ- I ^^ magnified , ,. same, natu. 
enCe between the ral size; a, larva, side view (line 
latiriirlo ATni-oaaAil shows natural size) ;*, terminal joints, 
attntuue, expie LI seen from beneath, magnified. 
in degrees, and 90. 
colatoriumt (kol-a-to'ri-um), re. [ML., < L. 
colare, pp. colatui, strain: see colander.] Ec- 
cles., a strainer used to remove anything that 
may have fallen into the chalice. 
colature (kol'a-tur), re. [= F. colature, < LL. 
colatura, straining, < L. colare, strain : see col- 
ander.] 1. The act of straining or filtering; 
the matter strained. 2. A strainer; a filter. 
[Rare in both uses.] 
A colature of natural earth. Evelyn. 
colback (kol'bak), n. Same as calpac. 
colbertinet, colberteent (kol'ber-ten), n. [So 
called from Colbert, a distinguished minister of 
Louis XIV., in the 17th century, a liberal pro- 
moter of industry and the arts.] A fine lace of 
a particular pattern: so named in allusion to 
Colbert's patronage of the industry. The name 
occurs in English from about 1660 to the middle 
of the following century. Also colverteen. 
A narrow diminutive colverteen pinner that makes them 
look so saint-like. 
The Factious Citizen, 1685 (Fairholt, I. 323). 
Pinners edged with colberteen. 
Swift, Baucis and Philemon. 
colcannon (kol-kan'on), re. Same as calecan- 
non. 
COlcMcia (kol-chis'i-a), n. [NL.] Same as col- 
chicine. 
colchicine (kol'chi-sin), n. [< ColcMc(um) + 
-ine?; = F. colchicine.] A poisonous alkaloid 
(C^Hi^NOs) obtained from the bulbs and seeds 
of plants of the genus Colchicum. It apparently 
represents the virtues of the crude drug. 
Colchicum (kol'chi-kum; as Latin genus name, 
kol'ki-kum), re. [< L. colchicum, < Gr. KO\X I - 
tc6v, a plant with a poisonous bulbous root, prob. 
neut. of KoX^imif (L. Colcliiciis), of Ko/l^tf, L. Col- 
chis, a country in Asia, east of the Black Sea : 
with reference to Medea, the sorceress and poi- 
soner of ancient legend, said to have been a na- 
tive of Colchis.] 1 . [I. c.] A plant of the genus 
Colchicum. 2. [NL.] A genus of liliaceous 
plants, with radical leaves, generally produced 
in spring, and crocus-like flowers appearing in 
the autumn. About 30 species are known, natives of 
Europe and Asia, the most familiar being C. autumnale 
the meadow-saffron, a plant with a solid bulb-like root- 
stock, found in England and various parts of the Euro- 
pean continent, and forming a gay carpet in the autumn 
IB the fields where its pale-lilac, crocus-like flowers spring 
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up. Its bulbs and seeds are used 
medicinally, principally in at- 
tacks of gout. 
colcothar (kol'ko-thar), n. 
[ML. colcothar,' colcotar, 
colcothar vitrioli; a word 
introduced (and perhaps 
invented) by Paracelsus.] 
The brownish-red peroxid 
of iron which remains after 
the distillation of the acid 
from iron sulphate, it is 
used for polishing glass and 
other substances, and as a pig- 
ment under the name of Indian 
red. Also called chalcitis, crocus 
or crocus martin astri-nyens, and 
caput mortumn vitrioli, or red 
vitriol. 
A red, blackish, light, pow- 
dery, austere calx remains, . . . 
and hence vitriol consists of the 
oil of vitriol and colcothar and 
phlegm. 
P. Shaw, Chemistry, II. ccvi. 
cold (kold), a. [= So. and 
E. dial, cauld. caud; < ME. 
cold, cald, < AS. ceald, cald 
, Ac* 777 ^-v-n ' 773 c " m autHmnait) and sec- 
(= OS. kald= OFries. kald tion of nower. 
= MD. kout, D. koud = 
MLG. kalt, LG. kold, kald, kolt = OHG. chalt, 
MHG. G. kalt = Icel. kaldr = Sw. kail = Dan. 
kold = Goth, kalds, cold), an old pp. form in -d 
(like ol-d, lou-d, dea-d), from the strong verb 
preserved in AS. calan (= Icel. kala), become 
cold, > col, E. cool, and dele, E. chill; akin to 
L. geliis, gelu, frost, cold, gelidus, cool, cold, 
gelare, freeze, etc. : see cool and chilli, and gelid, 
cold 
action ; not affectionate, cordial, or friendly : as, a cold 
audience ; a cold lover or friend ; a cold temper. 
Thou art neither cold uor hot. Eev. iii. 15. 
So cold herself, whilst she such warmth exprest, 
'Twas Cupid bathing in Diana's stream. 
Dryden, To Mrs. Anne Killigrew, 1. 86. 
The rumors of the empire of Montezuma, its magnifi- 
cence and its extent, . . . were sufficient to inflame the 
coldest imagination. Bancroft, Hist. IT. S., I. 25. 
(6) Sot heated by sensual desire ; chaste. 
He spake of her, as Dian had hot dreams, 
And she alone were mid. Shak., Cymbeline, v. 5. 
(c) Not moving or exciting feeling or emotion ; unaffect- 
ing ; not animated or animating ; not able to excite feel- 
ing or interest ; spiritless : as, a cold discourse ; cold com- 
fort. 
Wommenues coimseils ben fill ofte colde. 
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 436. 
The jest grows cold . . . when it comes on in a second 
scene. Addison, Travels in Italy. 
(d) Unmoved by interest or strong feeling ; imperturba- 
ble ; deliberate ; cool. 
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge. Burke. 
7. Having lost the first warmth, as of feeling 
or interest. 
He had made them [corrections] partly from his own re- 
Meadow-saffron ( Coichi- view of the Papers, after they had lain coW a good while by 
him. Pref. to Maundrell's Aleppo to Jerusalem. 
8. In art, blue in effect, or inclined toward blue 
in tone ; noting a tone, or hue, as of a pigment, 
or an effect of light, into the composition of which 
blue enters, though the blue may not be appa- 
rent to the eye : as, a picture cold in tone. 9f. 
Discouraging; worrying; inspiring anxiety. 
Saved the fro cares colde. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 1955. 
Cold comfort, small comfort; little cheer; something 
points on the skin is 
lowered; especially, producing this sensation 
with considerable or great intensity, an inferior 
degree of intensity being denoted by the word 
cool; gelid; frigid; chilling: as, cold air; a 
cold stone; cold water. A substance induces this 
sensation when it is sensibly less warm than the body, and 
in contact with it absorbs its heat by conduction. 
The air bites shrewdly. It is very cold. 
Shak., Hamlet, i. 4. 
Of hearts that beat from day to day, 
Half-conscious of their dying clay, 
And those cold crypts where they shall cease. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Iviii. 
2. Physically, having a low temperature, or 
a lower temperature than another body with 
which it is compared : without direct reference 
to any sensation produced: as, the sun grows 
colder constantly through radiation of its heat. 
In this sense, a body which is warm or hot to the touch 
may be cold as compared with some body still hotter. See 
heat. 
For surely now our household hearths are cold : 
Our sons inherit us. 
Tennyson, Lotus Eaters (choric song, vi.). 
Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon. 
Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount. 
3. Having the sensation induced by contact 
with a substance of which the temperature is 
sensibly lower, especially much lower, than 
that of the part of the body touching it, in- 
ferior degrees of the sensation being denoted 
by cool, chill, chilly. The sensation of cold is proba- 
bly not the mere opposite of the sensation of heat, but Is 
a distinct sensation residing in points of the skin different 
in position from those in which the sensation of heat is 
felt. 
When I am cold, he heats me with beating. 
Shale., C. of E., iv. 4. 
The poor man had . . . need have some warm meat, 
To comfort his cold stomach. 
Beau, and Fl., Woman-Hater, v. 2. 
A spectral doubt which makes me cold. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, xli. 
4. Dead. 
Ere the placid lips be cold. Tennyson, Adeline. 
Cold to all that might have been. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Ixxv. 
Figuratively 5. Affecting the senses only 
slightly; not strongly perceptible to the smell 
or taste, (a) Bland ; mild ; not pungent or acrid. 
Cold plants have a quicker perception of the heat of the 
sun than the hot herbs. Bacon, Nat. Hist. 
(6) Not fresh or vivid ; faint ; old ; applied in hunting to 
scent, and in woodcraft to trails or signs not of recent 
origin. 
The object is to obtain a fine nose [in a dog], so as to 
hunt a cold scent. Sportsman's Gazetteer, p. 440. 
(c) In the game of hunt-the-thimble and similar games, 
distant from the object of search : opposed to warm, that 
is, near, and hot, very near. 
6. Affecting or arousing the feelings or pas- 
sions only slightly, (a) Deficient In passion, zeal, 
enthusiasm, or ardor; insensible; indifferent; uncon- 
cerned ; phlegmatic ; not animated or easily excited into 
[befell]. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), iii. 264. 
Cold purse, empty purse. Shak. Cold roastt, some- 
thing insignificant ; nothing to the purpose. 
I make a vow, quoth Perkyn, thow speks of cold rost, 
I schal wyrch " wyselyer" without any host. 
Turnament of Tottenham (Percy's Reliques, p. 178). 
He passed by a beggerie little toune of cold roste in the 
mountaines of Sauoye. 
Udall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 297. 
Cold seeds, the seeds of the cucumber, gourd, pump- 
kin, etc. Cold storage. See storage. Cold wave. See 
wave. Cold without, a slangy contraction for "cold 
spirits without sugar or water ": as, " a glass of cold with- 
out," Bttlwer, My Novel, vi. 20. In cold blood. See 
blood. To blow hot and cold. See Motel. To give, 
show, or turn the cold shoulder, to treat with studied 
coldness, neglect, or indifference. To throw cold wa- 
ige by unex- 
cold (kold), re. [< ME. cold, cald, < AS. ceald = 
Goth, kald, n., cold, = (with diff. term.) OFries. 
kalde, kelde = D. koude = MLG. kolde, kulde, 
kuldene = OHG. chalti, MHG. kalte, kelte = G. 
kdlte, f., = Dan. kulde = Sw. kold, m., cold; 
from the adj.] 1. The sensation produced by 
sensible loss of heat from some part of the 
body, particularly its surface; especially, the 
sensation produced by contact with a substance 
having a sensibly lower temperature than the 
body. 
A penetrating cold is felt in Egypt when the thermome- 
ter of Fahrenheit is below 60. 
E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 9. 
My teeth, which now are dropt away, 
Would chatter with the cold. 
Tennyson, St. Simeon Stylites. 
2. The relative absence or want of heat in one 
body as compared with another ; especially, the 
physical cause of the sensation of cold. 
The parching air 
Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. 
Milton, P. L., ii. 595. 
3. In phys., a temperature below the freezing- 
point of water: thus, 10 of cold, C., means 10 
below zero, C. ; 10 of cold, F., means 22 F. 
4. An indisposition commonly ascribed to ex- 
posure to cold; especially, a catarrhal inflam- 
mation of the mucous membrane of the nose, 
pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, or bronchial 
tubes. When the inflammation is confined to the air- 
passages of the nose and connecting cavities it is a coryza, 
or cold in the head. A so-called " cold on the lungs" is 
usually bronchitis or trachitis. 
Fal. What disease hast thou? 
Bitll. A whoreson cold, sir ; a cough. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iii. 2. 
To leave (out) in the cold, to slight or neglect; inten- 
tionally overlook. 
The American artists were this year left entirely in the 
cold. The American, VIII. 185. 
To take or catch COld, to become affected by a cold. 
My wound hath taken cold, and I shall die. 
Tennyson, Passing of Arthur, 
coldt (kold), v. i. [< ME. colden (of. equiv. 
cnelden: see cheld), < AS. cealdian (= MLG. 
