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kind, or countenanced by one or more brandies of the 
iegiflature. Addifon. —To colour a ftranger’s goods, is when 
a freeman allows a foreignelr to enter goods at the cuftora- 
boule in his name.; fo that the foreigner pays but lingle 
duty when he ought to pay double. Phillips. 
'To CO'LOUR, -zi. n. To blulh. A low word, only ufed 
in converfation. 
COTOURABLE, adj. Specious; plaufible. It is now 
little ufed. —They have now a colourable pretence to with- 
itand innovations, having accepted of other laws and 
rules already. Spenjer. 
CO'LOURABLY, ad-v. Specioufly; plaufibly.—The 
procefs, howfoever allowably awarded, hath not hit the 
very mark whereat it was directed. Bacon. 
CO'LOURED, part. adj. Streaked; div’eifified with va¬ 
riety of hues.;—The coloured are coarier juiced, and there¬ 
fore not fo we.ll and equally conceded. Bacon. 
CO'LOURING, f. The part of the painter’s art that 
teaches to lay on his colours with propriety and beauty r 
But as the flighted Iketch, if juftly trac’d, 
Is by ill colouring but the more dilgrac’d ; 
So by faife learning is good fenfe defac’d. Pope. 
CO'LOURIST, f. A painter who excels in giving the 
proper colours to his defigns.—Titian, Paul Veronefe, 
Van Dyck, and the relt of the good colourifs, have come 
neared to nature. Dryden. 
CO'LOURLESS, adj. Without colour; not diftinguifh- 
ed by any hue; tranfparent.—Trani'parent fubdances, as 
gials, water, and air, when made very thin by being blown 
into bubbles, or othsrwife formed into plates, exhibit va¬ 
rious colours, according to their various thinnefs; al¬ 
though, at a greater thicknefs, they appear very clear 
and colourlefs. Newton. 
COL'PO, a town of South America, and capital of a 
jurifdiCtion in Peru. 
COLPOCE'LE, f [from stoXwo?, the vagina, and xtAij, 
a tumour ] A tumour or hernia feated in the vagina. 
COLPO'DA,/ in zoology, a genus of pellucid worms, 
belonging lo the order of infuloria, of which Dr. Gmelin 
enumerates lix fpecies. 
COLPOO'N,/. in botany. See Euonymus. 
COLPOPTO'SIS. f. [from v.ohitoq, the vagina, and 
vriorTu, to fall down.] A bearing or failing down of the 
vagina. 
COL'POS, f. [xoAtto;, Gr.] The vagina, or cavitas 
muliebris. Alio an ulcer called a Jinus. 
COL'RANE (Henry Hare, lord baron of), defeended 
from John, younger brother to fir Nicolas Hare, baronet, 
mader of the rolls, and privy counfellor to Henry VIII. 
was born at Blechingley, in Surrey, May io, 1693, and 
educated at Corpus Chrilti college, Oxford, under the 
tuition of Dr. F.ogers. A lyric poem, by lord Colrane, 
appeared in the Academiae Oxonienfis Comitia Pliilolo- 
gica, 1713, and in the Mufae Anglicanae, vol. iii. p. 303, 
under the title of Mularum oblatio ad Reginam. Dr. 
Bafil Kennet, who fucceeded Dr Turner in the prefidency 
of that fociety, inferibed to his lordfhip an epidolary poem 
on his predecedor’s death. He was a great proficient in 
the learned languages, particularly the Greek ; and emi¬ 
nently verfed in hiftory, both civil and ecclefiadical. He 
was grand mader of the fociety of free-tnafons, and had 
made the tour of Italy three times; in which he made a 
noble collection of prints and drawings of all the anti¬ 
quities, buildings, and pictures, in Italy, given after his 
deceafe to Corpus Chrilti college. The elteem in which 
he was held by the literati, procured him admittance in¬ 
to the Republica Literaria di Arcadia, and the particular 
intimacy of the marquis Scipio Maffei, who afterwards 
vifited him at his ancient manor and feat at Tottenham, 
in Middlefex. His lordlhip died at Bach, Aug. 4, 1749, 
His very valuable collection of prints relative to Englith 
antiquities, with a portrait of him, by Richardfon, were 
obtained after his death by Mr. Henry Baker for the fo¬ 
ciety of antiquaries. His natural and only daughter, 
Vol, IV. No. 239. 
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Henrietta Rofa Peregrina, born in Italy, and afterwards 
naturalized, was married in 1764 to James Townfend, 
elq. alderman of London. 
COL'SIR, a town of Afia> in the country of Thibet: 
fifty miles nortli-eaft of Harachar-Hotun. 
COL'S TER WORTIT, a filial 1 town in Lincolnfhire, 
on the great north road. It is pleafantly fituated on the 
eaft fide of the river Witham, which meanders through a 
pleafant valley dividing Colllerworth* from Woollthrope, 
a finall hamlet belonging to it, and where that great lu¬ 
minary in the Britilh hemifphere, fir Ifaac Newton, was 
born, in 1642. Many travellers have curiofity enough to 
vifit the manor-houfe in Woolfthrope, which gave birth 
to io unbounded a genius. Near Colfterworth is alio 
Grimftorpe, the elegant feat of his grace the duke of 
An caller. 
COL'STON (Edward), ever memorable for his bene- 
faClions and charities, was the eldelt ion of William 
Collton, efq. an eminent Spanifh merchant, and born in 
Biiltol, November 2, 1636. He was brought up to trade, 
and refided fome time in Spain; as did alio his brothers, 
two of whom were inhumanly murdered there by affaffins. 
He inherited a handfome fortune from his parents, which 
received continual additions from the fortunes of his 
brethren, all of whom, though numerous, he furvived. 
This family fubftance he increafed immenfely by trade; 
and, having no near relations, he difpoled of a great part 
ot it in aCls of charitymnd beneficence. In 1691 he built, 
at the charge of about 2500I. St. Michael’s hill alms- 
lioufes in Briltol; and endowed them with lands, whole 
yearly rent long ago amounted to 282I. 3s. 4d. The fame 
year he gave houfes and lands, without Temple-gate in 
that city, to the fociety of merchants for ever, towards 
the maintenance of fix poor old decayed failors, to the 
yearly value of 24I. In 1696, he built in Temple-ltreet, 
at his own charge, a fchool and dwelling-houfe for a 
mailer, to inftruCl forty boys, who are alio clothed. The 
eftate given for this charity amounts to Sol. yearly, clear 
of ail charges. In 1702 he gave 500I. towards rebuilding 
queen Elizabeth’s hofpital on the College-green in Bris¬ 
tol ; and for the clothing and educating of fix boys there, 
appropriated an eftate of 60I. a-year, clear of charges, be- 
fides 10]. for placing out the boys apprentices. In 1708, 
be fettled his great benefaction of the hofpital of St. Au- 
gultin in Briltol, confuting of a matter, two ufhers, and 
one hundred boys; for the maintenance of whom he 
jjave an eftate of 13 81 . 15s. 6Jd. a-year. The charge of 
firft fetting up this hofpital, and making it convenient 
for the purpofe, amounted, it is laid, to about ii,oooI. 
He gave alfo 61 . yearly to the minifter of All Saints in 
Briltol, for reading prayers every Monday and-Tuefday 
morning throughout the year, and il. a-year to the clerk • 
and fexton ; alfo 61 . a-year for ever, for a monthly fer- 
mon and prayers to the prifoners in Newgate there; and 
20I. yearly for ever to the clergy beneficed in that city, 
for preaching fourteen fermons in the time of Lent, on 
fubjeCts appointed by himfelf. The fubjeCts are thele : 
the Lent fait; againft atheifrn and infidelity; the catholic 
church ; the excellence of the church of England; the 
powers of the church ; baptiim ; confirmation ; confeifion 
and abfolution; the errors of the church of Rome; en- 
thufiafin and fuperftition; reftitution ; frequenting the 
divine fervice; frequent communion ; the paftion of our 
blefted Saviour. He beftowed upwards of 2000k in Occa- 
fional charities and benefactions to churches and charity- 
fcliools, all within the city of Briltol. He gave alfo 6000]. 
for the augmentation of lixty finall livings. A.ny living 
that was entitled to queen Anne’s bounty might have 
this too, on condition that every parifii, which did re¬ 
ceive this, fhould be obliged to raife tool, to be added to 
the 100I. railed by Coition; and marly livings have had, 
the grant ot this bounty. He gave to St. Bartholomew’s 
hofpital in London, aoool. with which was purchafed an, 
eftate of iool. a-year, which is fettled on that hofpital; 
and he left to the fame, by will, 500I. To Chrilt’s hof- 
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