colpeurynter 
a rubber bag into which witter may bo forced 
for diluting tlic vnoiim. 
COlpice (kol'pis), . [K. ilial.; cf. NL. col/iii-mm 
(Iliiiley), ult. < OK. r<il)n-r, F. niH/ii-i; cut: gee 
(/'. IT. rn/i/iirr.'] A youni; tree cut down 
mid useil as :i lever. |I'rov. Kng. ] 
COlpitiS(kol-pi'tin), n. [XL.,< Or. MI/ -or, bosom, 
hi|i. womb, + -itis.] In piilhul., inllammutioii of 
1 lie vagina. 
COlpOCele (kol'po-sel), . [= F. ml/nirili; < <!r. 
iv<i/;, bosom, lap, womb, + k/////.u titinor.] A 
tumor projecting into the vagina ; hernia vagi- 
lllllis. Also ciilleil rlijli-iii-ili. 
Colpoda (kol-po'da), . [Nlj.,< Or. MI/ 
winding, siniioiis, < Kfi/.Kor, bosom, bay, 4- 
form.] 1. Ageuusofeiliati' int'iisorians. repre- 
senting a low grade of organization of the ' 'ili- 
ata, common in infusions of hay. ih.\ in, \. .,,!. 
What the shape,. fa hean. move act ivch l>> means "I nun 1 
ens cilia, the longest of which are, at the anterior end ni 
the IMJ.K , aid ha\c :l ri Ml t I act He Vac Hole ;tt I] tllrr .nil 
ami a liircc cinliiplast ill tin: middle. Tip > become .|iiic- 
cent, ntract their rilin, arc incased in ttraotaroleM trysts. 
:iihl ill tli;il >t ate multiply by the process of llssioli inlo to, 
four, orumre individuals. xhegeniuUrofomdby K< ni t.. 
i'.tn-lo-l'i'xiir. <'. i-in-uHiK is fun ml in frrsli- water infusions. 
2. [Lfsedasaplural.] A synonym of Arctisca. 
Colpodea (kol-po'tlo-a), H. i>l. [NL. : see Col- 
pniltt,] In Ehrenberg's system (1836), a family 
of illoricato entcrodelous infiisoriiuis. with veu- 
trul apertures and simple cilia only. 
Colpodella (kol-po-del'ii), H. [XL., < ('(il/Miiln 
+ dim. -c/to.] A genus of monadiforui infu- 
sorians, or so-called zoOspores, which become 
globular and encysted without passing through 
an amoaboid stage. 
Colpodina (kol-po-d!'na), n. pi. [NL., < Col- 
lin/lfi + -;-.] A group of ciliate iufusorians, 
typified by the genus Colpoda. Claparede and 
Lackmann, 1858-60. 
COlpohyperplasia (kol-po-hi-per-pla'si-a), H. 
[NL., < Or. ko/.TOf, bosom, lap, womb, + tme/i, 
over, + irt.anif, a forming, \ TrUaaciv, form.] 
In pathol., overgrowth of the vaginal mucous 
membrane, associated with increased mucous 
secretion. - COlpohyperplasia cystlca, colpohyper- 
plasia in which many afata Hat cysts develop in tin- mu- 
runs nu'inliranc (if the vagina. 
colpoperineorrhaphy (kol-po-per'i-ne-or'a-fi), 
n. [' Gr. /ottirof, bosom, lap, womb, + ireptveoi; 
perineum, + /M^r/, a sewing.] In surg., an op- 
eration involving the vagina and perineum, 
performed for the repair of a perinea! rupture. 
colpoplastic(kol-po-plas'tik), a. [< eolpoplastij 
+ -io.] Pertaining to colpoplasty. 
colpoplasty (kol'po-plas-ti), n. [< Or. wttn-or, 
bosom, lap, womb', + Tr/Ujorof, verbal adj. of 
irhaaaeiv, form.] In surf/., a plastic operation 
on the vagina. Also called elytroplasti/. 
colpoptosis (kol-pop-to'sis), . [NL., ^ Gr. KO/".- 
Trof, bosom, lap, womb, + irrijoir, a falling, < JTI- 
VTCIV, fall.] In pathol., prolapsus of the vagina. 
colporrhagia (kol-po-ra'ji-a), n. [NL., <Gr. 
KoAjrof, bosom, lap, womb, + -payia, < frtiyvvvat, 
break.] In pathol., hemorrhage from the va- 
gina. 
colporrhaphy (kol-por'a-fi), n. [NL., < Gr. 
K<5/.;rof, bosom, lap, womb, + patyfi, a sewing, < 
pairretv, sew.] In surg., the operation of unit- 
ing the walls of the vagina when ruptured. 
Also called elytrorrhaphy. 
colporrhea (kol-po-re'a), . [NL., < Gr. /c<iA;rof, 
bosom, lap, womb, -f- poia, a flowing, < faiv, 
flow.] Same as leucorrhea. 
colportage (kol'por-taj), n. [< F. colportai/e, 
hawking, peddling, Ccolporter, hawk, peddle: 
see colporteur."] The work earned on by colpor- 
teurs ; the distribution by gift or sale of Bibles 
and other religious literature. 
colporteur, colporter (kol'por-ter), n. f< F. 
colporteur, a hawker, peddler, newsman, < col- 
porter, carry on the neck, hawk, peddle, < col, 
neck (see col, collar), + porter, carry: see 
port 3 .] A person employed by a Bible or tract 
society, or the like, to distribute gratuitously or 
sell at low rates Bibles and various other re- 
ligious publications. 
COl-prophett, See cole-prophet. 
colrake (kol'rak), n. [< ME. colrakc, < col, coal, 
+ rA:e.] If. A rake or poker used by bakers. 
2. In mining, a shovel used in stirring lead 
ores during the process of washing. 
colsipet, [ME., as if mod. "colship, < cote 4 , 
treachery, + -ship. See cote* and its com- 
pounds.] Treachery; deceit. 
Alle \vo atter ilrajjen off ure eldere, 
The [who] broken ilrigtiime* word thum the nedilre 
I IHT -thni-K hareth tnankin 
r.i-lheii ititli ami win, 
Kalfi/if anil KistiiiK. Kfl. Aaliij., p. 210. 
L113 
colstafft, . Slime IIM 1'iiliix/illf. 
colt (koit). ii. (Karly mod. E. ulso foul I : < 
.M K. ml/, n young horse, a young an, < AS. mlt. 
n young nss, a young camel, = Sw. l.'iilt. a young 
boitr. a stiiiil liny. dial. 1,-nllt. a boy or lad: rf. 
Ssv. kull Dan. kitlit, a brood, children eollee 
lively. Cf.c/i/W.] 1. A yiiting horse, ora young 
animal of the horse tribe : roiiiinonly and dis- 
tinct ivcly applied to the male, the young female 
beinj,' a Jilli/. In the I'.il.le it i applied t.. a yMinn 
< iiniel anil to a yuuiiK iUH. In tj*>rtin<>. a tln.i.ur_'hl'reil 
oil! I .ec.. nies a IKIMC at live years "Id, others ut fmir > eai - 
Thirty iiillrh eaineln with their mil*. lieu, xvvii. 1.'.. 
Ilelxild. tliy Kini; ..... m-tli nnt tht : lie U just .inii hav- 
ing - ilvalinn ; lol>. and riilin^ upon an IUSH. and n|x>n a 
'"II tiie (mil u( all aiw. '/., h. i\. H. 
2. A person new to office or to the exercise of any 
art ; a green hand : as, a team of colts at crii-kei . 
[Slang.] 3f. A cheat; a slippery fellow. 
An old trick, l>y which C. Varres, like a cunning colt, 
often )IO|]H- hiinseK at a pinch. 
Xmufamm, Works, II. 284. 
4. A rope's end used for punishment ; also, a 
piece of rope with something heavy at the > nd 
used as a weapon. [Slang.] 5. The second 
after-swarm of bees. Phia, Diet. Apiculture, 
p. 23. [Kare.] TO cast one's colt's tooth, to net rid 
of youthlnl haliits, or t" sow wild oats: in allusion to the 
shedding of a colt's first set of teeth, which begins when 
the animal is alxiut three years old. 
Well said, i^.nl Sands: 
Your cuit't tuath is uot curl \ et . 
Shak., Hen. VIII.. i. .;. 
To have a colt's tooth, to have a tendency to (riskiness, 
wantonness, or licentiousness. 
Yet I havf alway a cvlte* tooth. 
C*owr, l*rol. t<i Reeve's Tale, 1. 34. 
= Syn. Filly, etc. See pony. 
coltt (kolt), v. [< co, n.] I. intrans. If. To 
frisk, frolic, or run at large, like a colt. Spenser. 
2. [Cf.c<i.rc,t>.,2,andcat>ei,r.,II.,2.] Tobe- 
come detached, as a mass of earth from a bank 
or excavation ; cave: with I'M. [Prov. Eng.] 
Il.t tram. To befool; fool. 
/.''. Take heed o( his cheating. 
','/. I warrant you, sir, I have uot been matriculated at 
the university ... to he colted here. 
H, May-Day, U. 5. 
Colubrinae 
Of COlrpify, the will o' the wisp. See i;//i/>ui/. 
I I'rov. Kng.] 
coltsfoot ( kolt s'f ill), n. The popular name of the 
liiijn /'Vic- 
order 
Ill, 
Coltdbot ( Tusstlafo t-'ar/,,ra ). 
What a nlainie mean ye to cult me thus? 
Shat., 1 Hen. IV., U. 2. 
colt^ale (kolt'al), n. An allowance of ale 
claimed as a perquisite by a blacksmith on the 
first shoeing of a horse. Brocket!. [Prov. Eng.] 
colter, coulter (kol'ter), n. [< ME. colter, cul- 
ter, eoltour, < AS. culter, a knife, a colter, = W. 
nrlltyr, cwlltr = OF. coutre = Pr. coltre = It. col- 
tro } < L. culler, a 
knife, a colter; 
cf. 8kt. kart- 
tari, scissors, < 
y kart, cut. 
From L. culter 
come also cut- 
lass, cutler, etc.] 
An iron blade 
or sharp-edged 
Roiling colter. Knuvcoiter. wheel attached 
to the beam of 
a plow to cut the ground and thus facilitate 
the separation of the furrow-slice by the plow- 
share. Also culter Rolling colter, or wheel-col- 
ter, a colter of circular shape rotating upon an axis sus- 
tained below the plow-beam. 
colter-neb (kol'ter-neb), n. The puffin, Frater- 
cnla arctica : so named from the shape of its 
beak (neb). 
COllrevil (kolt'e' vl), n. A swelling in the sheath, 
a distemper to which young horses are liable. 
coltish (kol'tish), a. [< ME. coltissch ; < colt + 
-isfc 1 .] 1. Like a colt. 
He looked neither heavy nor yet adroit, only leggy, colt- 
ish, and in the road. The Century, XXVII. 184. 
2. Frisky; gay; wanton; licentious. Chaucer. 
Plato I read for nought, but if he tame 
Such coltith years. 
Sir /". Sidnry (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 513). 
coltishly (kol'tish-li), adv. In the manner of 
a colt ; wantonly. 
coltishness (kol'tish-nes), n. [< coltish + -ness.] 
Friskiness ; wantonness. 
colt-like (kolt'lik), n. Like a colt ; character- 
istic of a colt. 
Devils pluck'd my sleeve : . . . 
With enlt-like whinny and with hoggish whine 
They burst my prayer. Tennyson, St. Simeon Stylites. 
colt-pixy (kolt'pik'si), . A hobgoblin: now 
explained as " a spirit or fairy in the shape of 
a horse, which neighs and thus misleads horses 
into bogs"; but this is a sophistication due to 
popular etymology, the wort! being a perversion 
natural 
< Vl/;. 
a plant ot 
and 
A-ia. now natu- 
ralized in the 
I'llited M 
the leaves ..] 
Which Hep- 
..nee much elll- 
|,l, ,\ ed in medi- 
cine. The name 
11 (mm the 
lia|- of the leaf. 
The wild ginger, 
Atanm Caiw- 
ilfiar, U al*o tame- 
known u 
'. tut iw, in 
the u 
Also called tuaV 
i'",'. Coltsfoot 
candy, coltsfoot 
rock, 
itiK medicinal pro], 
.leliled rrolll 
the leaven of the 
tine colUfoot. It 
Is used for coughs 
and colds. Sweet 
coltsfoot, a North American plant, I'etatitei palnnil". 
ivsrmhlin tile true coltsfoot. 
coltstafft (kolt '*taf), n. Same as cowlstaff. 
colt's-tail (kolts'tal), n. A name of the flea- 
bane, Kriiji'rnn Cumuli H-I*. 
coltza, . See col:n. 
Coluber (kol'u-ber), H. [NL., < L. coluber, fern. 
eolnbra, a serpent, snake. Hence ult. E. cobra*, 
culverin."] A ge- 
nus of ordinary 
snakes, former- 
ly coextensive 
with the family 
' ''iluhrid<e, now 
limited to the 
most typical 
representatives 
- r ., , . ., Head of CWwVr obsolttHS, top view. 
of that family. ^^ ^ p 
Hiey have trails- frontal; , vertic.il; i, superciliary; Toc- 
veriw plaU'S on the clpilal. Nostrils indicated by dark spots. 
itflly. the plates 
under the tail fonniiiK a douhle ruw ; a flattened head with 
nine larger plates ; teeth alniustequal, and no poison-fangs. 
The harmless common snake or ringed spake of Europe, 
< ''/ iifn i- in/ti-i.i-. Is an example of the genus. 
colubrid, colubride (kol'u-brid), n. A snake of 
the family Colubridtf. 
True Coliibride*, Colnhrina, arc land snakes. 
Jiiicyc. Brit., XXII. 19-2. 
Colubridae (ko-lu'bri-de), . ?. [NL.. < Colu- 
ber + -ida;.'] A family of aglyi>hodont ser- 
pents, containing common innocuous species, 
representative of the suborder Colubrina. They 
have plates on the head, broad ventral scutes in single 
series, the caudal scutes in two series, a long and taper 
ing tail, and no anal spurs. There is no coronoid bone, 
the postorhital is not extended over the superciliary re- 
gion, and the nostril is in or lietween nasal plates. The 
family contains such species as the common snake of Eu- 
rope (Coluber natrix, Trojridonotu* natrix, or Satrix tor- 
uitata) and the common black-snake of the United .States 
(Tropidoiuttu* or Banraniim conttrirtor). It is divided by 
Cope Into 12 subfamilies and more than 200 genera. See 
cuts under black-make, Coluber, and T 
colubride, . See colubrid. 
colubriferoust, " [^ L. colubrifer (< coluber, a 
snake, + ferre = E. bear 1 ) + -oiw.] Bearing 
snakes or serpents. 
colubriform (ko-lu'bri-f6nn), a. [< NL. colu- 
briformis, < Coluber + L. forma, shape.] Same 
as colulirine, 1. 
Colubriformia(ko-lu-bri-f6r'mi-a), n.pl. [NL., 
neut. pi. of colubriformis : see colubriform.'] 
Same as Colubrina, 2 (a). 
Colubrina (kol-u-bri'nS), w. pi. [NL., neut. pi. 
of L. colubrin us : see colubrine.j 1. A gen- 
eral term for innocuous serpents, as distin- 
guished from yiperina or Thanatophidia. 2. 
More definitely: (o) A suborder of Ophidia, 
containing all the innocuous serpents with uii- 
grooved and imperforate teeth and dilatable 
jaws. Also called Colvbriformia and Aglypho- 
dontia. (6) The Aglyphodontia together with 
the Proteroglyphia, tnus including venomous 
serpents of the families Elapidte and Bydro- 
jiliidte. 
Colubrinse (kol-u-bri'ne), . pi. [NL., < Colu- 
ber + -inn 1 .] One of 12 subfamilies of Colubrida 1 . 
witli 36 genera, including Coluber proper, hav- 
ing the head distinct and moderately long, the 
