Part 2094

<hw>Col"ber*tine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From Jean Baptiste <ets>Colbert</ets>, a minister of Louis XIV., who encouraged the lace manufacture in France.]</ety> <def>A kind of lace.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Pinners edged with <b>colbertine</b>. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Difference rose between Mechlin, the queen of lace, and <b>colbertine</b>. <i>Young.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Colchicine</h1> <Xpage=276>

<hw>Col"chi*cine</hw> <tt>(? &or; ?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>colchicine</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A powerful vegetable alkaloid, <chform>C17H19NO5</chform>, extracted from the <spn>Colchicum autumnale</spn>, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste; -- called also <altname>colchicia</altname>.</def>

<h1>Colchicum</h1> <Xpage=276>

<hw>Col"chi*cum</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., a plant with a poisonous root, fr. <ets>Colchicus</ets> Colchian, fr. <ets>Colchis</ets>, Gr. <?/, an ancient province in Asia, east of the Black Sea, where was the home of Media the sorceress.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of bulbous-rooted plants found in many parts of Europe, including the meadow saffron.</def>

<note>&hand; Preparations made from the poisonous bulbs and seeds, and perhaps from the flowers, of the <spn>Colchicum autumnale</spn> (meadow saffron) are used as remedies for gout and rheumatism.</note>

<h1>Colcothar</h1> <Xpage=276>

<hw>Col"co*thar</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL. <ets>colcothar vitrioli</ets>, fr. Ar. <ets>qolqotar</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also <altname>crocus Martis</altname>.</def>

<h1>Cold</h1> <Xpage=276>

<hw>Cold</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>Compar.</tt> <er>Colder</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>superl.</tt> <er>Coldest</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>cold</ets>, <ets>cald</ets>, AS. <ets>cald</ets>, <ets>ceald</ets>; akin to OS. <ets>kald</ets>, D. <ets>koud</ets>, G. <ets>kalt</ets>, Icel. <ets>kaldr</ets>, Dan. <ets>kold</ets>, Sw. <ets>kall</ets>, Goth. <ets>kalds</ets>, L. <ets>gelu</ets> frost, <ets>gelare</ets> to freeze. Orig. p. p. of AS. <ets>calan</ets> to be cold, Icel. <ets>kala</ets> to freeze. Cf. <er>Cool</er>, <tt>a.</tt>, <er>Chill</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.</def> "The snowy top of <i>cold</i> Olympis."

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; <as>as, to be <ex>cold</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Not pungent or acrid.</def> "<i>Cold</i> plants."

<i>Bacon</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>cold</b> and unconcerned spectator. <i>T. Burnet.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>No <b>cold</b> relation is a zealous citizen. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.</def> "<i>Cold</i> news for me." "<i>Cold</i> comfort."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.</def>

<blockquote>What a deal of <b>cold</b> business doth a man misspend the better part of life in! <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The jest grows <b>cold</b> . . . when in comes on in a second scene. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; <as>as, a <ex>cold</ex> scent</as>.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>Not sensitive; not acute.</def>

<blockquote>Smell this business with a sense as <b>cold</b> As is a dead man's nose. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.</def>