 | Samuel Johnson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1812 - 808 pages
...disposed in a circle. Additon, 4 Any series or range of pillars. Pope, COLONY,*, [colonia, Lat.) l A body of people drawn from the mother country to inhabit some distant place. Dai-its. t The countiy planted , a plantation. Drydtn. COLOPHONY, *. [from Colophon, a city whence... | |
 | George Fulton - English language - 1814 - 452 pages
...plant with inhabitants [lumns Colonnade, kol-6-oäd', n. a row of pillars or coColony, kol'0-né, n. a body of people drawn from the mother country to inhabit some distant place ; the place thus inhabited Colórate, kol'ô-ràt, a. coloured ; died Colorific, kol-o-rif 'ik, a. able to... | |
 | John Walker - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1819 - 800 pages
...columns disposed in a circle ; any scries or range of pillars. — See To COLLECT. COLONY, kol'6-ne. s. A body of people drawn from the mother country to inhabit some distant place ; the country planted, a plantation. COLOPHONY, k6-lAf'6-ne. s. Rosin. Masou. COLOQUINTEDA, kdl-16-kwJn'te-da. s.... | |
 | John Walker - English language - 1822 - 808 pages
...columns disposed in a circle ; any scries or range of pillars.— See To Collect. COLONY, kil'¿-n¿, ». A body of people drawn from the mother country to inhabit some distant place ; the country planted, a plantation. COLOQUINTEDA, kil-lA-kwto'te-da, ». The fruit of a plant of the same name,... | |
 | John Walker - English language - 1824 - 436 pages
...Colonnade, k61-16-nade' s. series of columns disposed in a circle ; any range of pillar Colony, k61'6-ne s. a body of people drawn from the mother country to inhabit some distant place Coloration, k61-6-ra'shftn s. the art of colouring ; the state of being coloured Colorifick,, kol-16-ril"ik... | |
 | Stephen Jones - 1828 - 538 pages
...with inhabitants , [columns Colonnade, kil-li-na'de. *. a row of pillars, or Colony, kAl'-o-ny. s. a body of people drawn from the mother country to inhabit some distant place Colorate, kAl'-5-rit. a. coloured, dyed Colorific, kil-16-rlP-lk. a. able to produce colour or tint... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...land ; and from thence comes the word clown. CO'LONY, n. ». l Lat. colonia. A body of CO'LONIZE, va $ people drawn from the mother country to inhabit some distant place. The place itself by a metonymy ; to plant with inhabitants ; to settle with new planters. There was never... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1832 - 1738 pages
...[ro/ormu, liai.] Any range of insulated column*. /°opf. CO 1.ONYÍ. kf.1 -o-nc. nt [colonia. Lai.] A body of people drawn from the mother country to inhabit some distant place. Spenter. The country plant cd. Drydrn. COLOPHON», kftl'-of An. я.«. [Lat.] The concia sion of a... | |
 | Joseph Wilson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 616 pages
...COLONNADE(kol-onéde')». [archit a sériée of columns] Colonnade, {. colonnauon, f. COLONY (kol'-ô-ni) ». [a body of people drawn from the mother country to inhabit some distant place; the country planted; a plantation] Colonie, f. peuplade, f. Marseilles is a colony of the Phocians, Mantille est... | |
 | 1834 - 508 pages
...very curious, for they point out these absentees by name. Origin of the IVord Colony. — A colony is a body of people drawn from the mother country to inhabit some distant place. The word originally signified no more than a farm, ie the habitation of a peasant, colonus, (hence the... | |
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The term colony, signifies nothing more than a body of people drawn from the mother country, to inhabit some distant place, or the country itself so inhabited. 
