Colibri
a name for various species of humming-bird.
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These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Colibri, Colic, Colima.
Colic
a name employed by the later Greek and the Roman physicians to denote diseases attended with severe pain and flatulent distention of the abdomen, without diarrhea or looseness of the bowels. The disease is now generally believed to be spasmodic in character, and to be dependent upon irregular contractions of the muscular coat of the intes- (incomplete), tines. Colic almost always ends in re- Khan," covery, preceded by free evacuation Khan," of the bowels. Purgatives, therefore, should be given combined with sedatives. A suppository or hypodermic injection of morphia may secure immediate relief from pain before aperients have time Mustard plasters, turpentine to act. stupes, and hot-water fomentations are also useful.
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Coligni, Gaspard de
ko-len-ye, Gaspard de (1517-1572), a French admiral. His life fell in the troublous times of the civil war between the Protestant Huguenots and the Catholics. A brilliant career in the wars with Spain raised him to the rank of admiral. He became the leader of the Huguenot party. In an age of the foulest treachery and assassination, and the concealment of ambitious designs behind the veil of religion, Coligni appears to have been the one eminent man of character. Catharine de Medici favored the admiral until she found that he had more influence with her son, King Charles IX, than she relished. She then incited the weak king to authorize a wholesale massacre of all Huguenots on the night of St. Bartholomew. At the appointed hour, when the Paris mob fell upon the unsuspecting Huguenots, the Duke of Guise, leader of the Catholic party, hurried with armed men to the house of the aged admiral. His followers burst into Coligni's bedchamber, thrust him through with their swords, and threw his body out of an upper window into the street below. In 1562 a Huguenot colony under encouragement from Coligni founded the first white colony on the mainland of North America at Port Royal, South Carolina . The settlers named the country Carolina in honor of the same miserable Charles IX, but they lost the fort and supplies by fire and returned to France. See Huguenots ; Catharine De Medici
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Colima
a Mexican State on the Pacific coast, with an area of 2,272 square miles, and a pop. of about 80,500. The soil is very fertile, the climate warm; large quantities of coffee, sugar, rice, tobacco, maize, and cotton The capital, Colima, 1,450 are grown. feet above the sea, about 40 miles E. N. E. of the port of Manzanillo, has several cotton factories. Pop. about 26,000.
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Collar-Bone
the clavicle; a bone situated on either side of the neck. The one is called the right, the other the left clavicle.
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Collatinus
the husband of Lucretia, who, in conjunction with Brutus, 1
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Collect
a name given to certain brief and comprehensive prayers, found in all liturgies and public devotional offices. The origin of the term is not certain; according to some, it is from these prayers being said in the congregation or collection of the people. They are of great antiquity, and occur in the sacramentary of Gelasius, patriarch of Rome, A. D. 494. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. See LABOR ORGANIZATION.
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Collet
A collar or band of metal. 2. A small collar fitted friction tight to the balance staff, and which is slotted to receive the lower end of the hairspring. 3. The part of a ring in which a stone is set. 4. The under side of a brilliant cut stone.
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Collet Wrench
A tool for twisting a hairspring collet to position, which consists of a metal handle, hollow at the extremity for the reception of the pivot, and having a minute wedge-shaped projection from its face, which enters the slit in the collet, allowing it to be turned readily.
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Collier
WILLIAM, an American comedian, born in 1868. He appeared in many minor parts in various comedies until 1901, when he became a star in "On the Quiet." He afterward appeared as star in many comedies and became one of the best known and most popular of American comedians.
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Collier
JOHN PAYNE, an English Shakespearean critic; born in London in 1789. He became known as a critical essayist on old English dramatic literature, and was editor of the new edition of "Dodsley's Old Plays" in 1825. In 1831 his best work, the "History of English Dramatic Poetry," was published. In 1842-1844 he published an annotated edition of Shakespeare in 8 vols.; in 1844 "Shakespeare's Library"; and in 1862 an edition of Spenser. He died in 1883.
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Collier (II)
PETER FENELON, an American publisher and philanthropist, born in County Carlow, Ireland, 1849. He removed with his parents to the nited States, settling in Cincinnati, and his formal education was completed in St. Mary Seminary in that city. He began his business career in New York City early in the seventies, selling books from door to door. He purchased in 1882, for a small sum, a complete set of the plates of an edition of Dickens' works. Purchasing a printing press, he began the publishing business which within a few years had become very successful. The firm of P. F. Collier & Son published and sold many millions of books, chiefly editions of standard authors, made in inexpensive form. He founded in 1888 "Collier's Weekly." Mr. Collier was well known as a sportsman and breeder of blooded horses. He died April 23, 1909.
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Collier (III)
ROBERT JOSEPH, an American editor and publisher, son of Peter Fenelon Collier, born in New York He graduated Georgetown University in 1894 and took from post graduate studies at Oxford and Harvard Universities. On the death of his father he became head of the publishing firm of P. F. Collier & Son, and for a time was editor of "Collier's Weekly." He initiated the formation of the Lincoln Farm Association, which by popular subscripton raised funds for the purchase of the farm upon which Lincoln was born in Kentucky, and the erection of granite memorial which a inclosed the Log og Cabin on the farm, This memorial was formally accepted by the United States Government in 1916. Mr. Collier was a member of many societies and took a prominent part in relief work during the World War. He a wellwas known sportsman. He died suddenly, Nov. 9, 1918.
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