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Show 1CTO pai ur. col o [f / 7 T ri Lo Co 7. Kind; fpecies ; character Boys and women are, for the moft patt, cattle o ter who excels in giving the proper cothis colour Shakefpeare's As you like i lours to his defigns 8. In the plural, a ftandard; an enfign o Titian, Paul Veronefe, Van Dyck, and the ref - "Had the tunicles and humours of the eye bee colorate, many rays from vifible objects would hav Ray been ftopt CororaTION: 7 /i [coloro, Latin. 1. The art or praétice of colouring war : they fay the colours of the foot, an Sandard of the horfe Some bodies have a more departable nature tha .others, as is evident in coloration; for a {mal quantity of faffron will tinét more than a grea Bacon -of brafil quantit 2. The ftate of being coloured He.at Venice gav An Shakefpeare's Richard 11 Againtt all checks, rebukes, and manners Bacon's Nat. Hift their preheminence And not retire. Shakefp. Merry Wives of Windfor The banks were filled with companies, paflin all along the river under their co/ours, with trum tints, colours, or hues pets founding In this compofition of white, the feveral ray .. do not fuffer any change in their colorifick qualitie by a&ing upon one another; but are only mixed . and by a mixture of their colours produce white WNeavton's Opticks COLO'SSE COLO'SSUS. nitude QY. f [coloffus, Latin. 9. Colours is ufed fingularly by 4ddi/on An author compares a ragged coin to a tattere Zo Co''LouRr colour I told him, that I would not favour or colozr i , any fort his former folly Raleigh's E[ays - CoLossE"aN. adj. [coloffeus, Lat.] In for of a coloflus ; of the height and bignef He colours the falfehood of ZEneas by an expref command from Jupiter to forfake the queen Dryden's Dedicat, Zneid ~ of fuch a flatue; giantlike [color, Latin. w confide the variou 4. 70 CoLOUR @ firanger's goods, is whe a freeman allows a foreigner to ente colours to b different fenfations, excited in us by the refra&. ed rays of light, refle€ted on our eyes in a differen manner according to the different fize Phillips Her hair fhall be of what colour it ‘pleafe God Shakefpeare .*__For though our eyes can nough Zo Co'Lour. w.z. To bluth. A low wor only ufed in converfation Co'LoURARLE. adj. [from colour,] Specious ; plaufible. It is now little ufed but colonrs fee Yet colours give them not their pow'r of fight Dawies The lights of colours are more refrangible on _ than another in this order; red, orange, yellow green, blue, indigo, deep violet 2. The frefhnefs, or appearance of bloo in the face My cheeks nolonger did their colour boaft. Dryd A fudden horror feiz'd his giddy head And his'Fars trickled, and his colour fleds Dryden 3. The tint of the painter The treach'rous colours the fair art betray . And all the bright creation fades away Pope Their wifdom is only of this world, to put falf . colofzr: upon things, to call good evil, and evil good againft the convition of their own confciences Savift Conc.ealment 5 palliation ; excufe ; fu perficial cover m It is no matter if I do halt; I have the wars fo coloyr reafonable an my penfio fhal fee the mor Shakefpeare's Henry 1 "Their fin admitted no colour or excufe King Charles 6. Appearance ; pretence; falfe fhew - Under the co/our of commending him, T have accefs my own love to prefer. Shakefpeare . Merchants came to Rhodes with a great thi -laded with corn ; under the colour of the fale where.05, they noted all that was done in the city Knolies's Biftory of the Turks i\:. L Had I facrificed ecclefiaftica revenue Hooker government an to their covetoufnefs and ambition, the would have foun no colourable neceflity of a King Charles We hope the mercy of God will confider us unt 4. The reprefentation of any thing fuper" ficially examined cious innovation army ‘When each bold figure juft begins to live They have now a colourable pretence to withftand innovations, having accepted of other law and rules already Spenfer ‘They were glad to lay hold on fo colourable matter, and to traduce him as, an author of fufpi Newton's Opticks fome mineration of our offences; yet had not th fincerity of our parents {o colourable expeétations Brown's Vulgar Errours Co'LourasLY. adv. [fro Specioufly; plaufibly colourable. The procefs, howfoever colourably awarded, hat not hit the very mark whereat it was direGted Bacon Co'LOURED. participial adj. [from colour. Streaked ; diverfified with variety o hues The coloured are coarfer juiced, and therefor not fo well and equally concoted Bacon's Natural Hiftory Co'LouriNG. # /. [from colour. "Th part of the painter's art that teaches t lay on his colours with propriety an beauty But as the flighteft fketch, if juftly trac'd Is by ill colouring but the more difgrac'd Se by falfe learning is good fenfe defac'd int plates, exhibit variou COLT. n. /. [colz, Saxon. female The colt hath about four year fo the fawn, and fo the calf of growth an Bacon's Nat. Hiftory Like co/ts or unmanaged horfes, we ftart at dea Taylor's Holy Liging bones and lifelefs blocks No fports, but what belong to war, they know To break the ftubborn co/t, to bend the bow Dryden's iEncid 2. A young foolifh fellow 75 CoiT.w. ». [from the noun.] To frifk to be licentious ; to run at large withou rule ; to riot ; to. frolick As foon as they were out of fight by themfelves they fhook off their bridles, and began to co/t ane more licentioufly than before Spenfer's State of Ircland . a. To befool ‘What a plague mean ye, to co/t me thus Shakefpeare's Henry IV fo that the foreigner pays but fingl duty, when he ought to pay double _ or fituation of the particles of which furfaces ar _ compofed Watts forme colours, according to their various thinnefs ;i although, at a greater thicknefs, they appear ver Newton's Opticks clear and colourlefs Pellucid colaurlefs glafs or water, by being beate into a powder or froth, do acquire a very intenf Bentley whitenefs 7o CoLT goods at the Cuftom Houfe in his name or thape Tranfparent fubftances, as glafs, water, and air when made very thin by being blown into bubbles but talk of his horfe. Shake[pe Merchant of Venice We have fearce heard of an infurre@ion tha was not coloured with grievances of the highef kind, or countenanced by one or more branches o the legiflature Addifor's Freebolder It is a vulgar idea of the colours of folid bodies when we perceive them to be a red, or blue, o green tinéture of the furface; but a philofophica by an Ay, that 's a colt, indeed; for he doth nothin 3. To make plaufible 1. The appearance of bodies to the ey only; hue ; dye. whe Neavton's Opticks cious colours, or fair appearances There huge coloffiss rofe, with trophies crown'd And runick charaGers were grav'd around. Pope With male offspring of a horfe, as foal for th 2. To palliate ; to excufe ; to drefs in {pe Temple - idea [coloro, Latin. Co'LourLESS. adj. [from colour. 1. A young horfe : ufed commonly for th The rays, to fpeak properly, are not coloured in them there is nothing elfe than a certain powe and difpofition to ftir up a fenfation of this or tha ftatue of enormous mag lon, the pyramids of Egypt, or colgfe of Rhodes =./ w. a Addifon 1.. To mark with fome hue, or dye Not to mention the walls and palace of Baby COLOUR Knolles colours Dryden's Dufrefuoy or othérway I muft advance the colours of my love Coror1'F1CcK. adj. [colorificus, Latin. ‘That which has the power of producin dyes his pure foul unte his captain Chritt Under whofe cofours he had fought fo long though fomewhat better; for beauty in flowers i of the good coloariftsy have come neareft to nature out colour; not diftinguithe hue ; tranfparent His body to that pleafant country's earth coloration plac fhal curiofities Amongf CiO T S CoLTs-FoOT. 7. /. [tuffilago ; from col and foor. It hath a radiated flower whofe difk confifts of many florets, bu the crown compofed of many half florets the embryos are included in a multifi flowercap, which turns to downy feed fixed in a bed Miller CorTs-TooTH. # /. [from co/t and zooth. 1. An imperfe& or {uperfluous tooth i young horfes 2. A love of youthful pleafure ; a difpofition to the practices of youth Well faid, lord Sands Your colts-tooth is not caft yet ~No, my lord; nor fhall not frump while I have Shake[peare Co'LTER. 7 /. [culzon, Sax. culter, Lat. The fharp iron of a plough that cuts th ground perpendicularly to the fhare Co'rLrrisu. adj. [from colt. tricks of a colt Having th wanton Co'LusRrRINE. adj. [colubrinus, Latin. 1. Relating to a {erpent 2. Cunning ; crafty Co'rumsary. u fi [columbarium, Lat. A dovecot ; a pigeon-houfe The earth of columbaries, or dovehoufes, is muc defired in the artifice of faltpetre Brown's Vulgar Errours Co'LUMBINE. 2 [ [columbina, Latin. plant with leaves like the meadow rue Miller Columbines are of feyeral forts and colours. The flower in the end of May, when few. other flower Poj?e thew DMortimer Co'LUMBINE |