Index of English words, starting with "co"

(1) - Column (n.) The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids.
(2) - Column (n.) A perpendicular line of figures.
(3) - Column (n.) A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper.
(4) - Column (n.) A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from "line", where they are side by side.
(5) - Column (n.) A small army.
(6) - Column (n.) A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy.
(7) - Column (n.) Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendome; the spinal column.
(8) - Column (n.) A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order.

(1) - Colure (n.) One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90¡ from the former, and is called the solstitial colure.

(1) - Coma (n.) A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.
(2) - Coma (n.) The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet.
(3) - Coma (n.) A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.