3. A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.
4. (Nat. Hist.) A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.
Col"o*pha`ny (? or ?), n. See Colophony.
Co"lo*phene (? or ?), n. (Chem.) A colorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene.
Col"o*phon (k&obreve;l"&osl;*f&obreve;n), n. [L. colophon finishing stroke, Gr. kolofw`n; cf. L. culmen top, collis hill. Cf. Holm.] An inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book.
The colophon, or final description, fell into disuse, and . . . the title page had become the principal direct means of identifying the book.
De Morgan.
The book was uninjured from title page to colophon.
Sir W. Scott.
Col"o*pho*nite (k&obreve;l"&osl;*f&osl;*nīt or k&osl;*l&obreve;f"&osl;*nīt), n. [Cf. F. colophonite. So named from its resemblance to the color of colophony.] (Min.) A coarsely granular variety of garnet.
Col"o*pho`ny (k&obreve;l"&osl;*fō*n&ybreve; or k&osl;*l&obreve;f"&osl;*n&ybreve;; 277), n. [Gr. 'h kolofwni`a (sc. "rhti`nh resin, gum) resin, fr. Kolofw`nios of or from Colophon in Ionia.] Rosin.
Col`o*quin"ti*da (?), n. See Colocynth. Shak.
Col"or (?), n. [Written also colour.] [OF. color, colur, colour, F. couleur, L. color; prob. akin to celare to conceal (the color taken as that which covers). See Helmet.] 1. A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.
&fist; The sensation of color depends upon a peculiar function of the retina or optic nerve, in consequence of which rays of light produce different effects according to the length of their waves or undulations, waves of a certain length producing the sensation of red, shorter waves green, and those still shorter blue, etc. White, or ordinary, light consists of waves of various lengths so blended as to produce no effect of color, and the color of objects depends upon their power to absorb or reflect a greater or less proportion of the rays which fall upon them.