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Col"ly*bist (?), n. [Gr. &?;, fr.
&?; a small coin.] A money changer. [Obs.]

In the face of these guilty collybists.

Bp. Hall.

Col*lyr"i*um (?), n.; pl. E.
Collyriums (#), L. Collyria
(#). [L., fr. Gr. &?;.] (Med.) An application to the
eye, usually an eyewater.

||Col`o*co"lo (?), n.
(Zoöl.) A South American wild cat (Felis
colocolo), of the size of the ocelot.

Col"ocynth (?), n. [L.
colocynthis, Gr. &?;. Cf. Coloquintida.]
(Med.) The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the
bitter cucumber (Citrullus, or Cucumis, colocynthis), an
Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in
white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic.
Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber,
bitter gourd.

Col`o*cyn"thin (?), n. [Cf. F.
colocynthine.] (Chem.) The active medicinal
principle of colocynth; a bitter, yellow, crystalline substance,
regarded as a glucoside.

Co*logne" (?), n.


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