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-- Colt"ish*ly, adv. --
Colt"ish*ness, n.

Colts"foot` (?), n. (Bot.)
A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves
and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine.

Butterbur coltsfoot (Bot.), a
European plant (Petasites vulgaris).

Colt's" tooth` (?). See under
Colt.

||Col"u*ber (?), n. [L., a
serpent.] (Zoöl.) A genus of harmless
serpents.

&fist; Linnæus placed in this genus all serpents,
whether venomous or not, whose scales beneath the tail are
arranged in pairs; but by modern writers it is greatly
restricted.

Col"u*brine (?), a. [L.
colubrinus.] 1. (Zoöl.)
like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber.

2. Like a snake; cunning; crafty.
Johnson.

||Co*lu"go (?), n. [Prob. an
aboriginal name.] (Zoöl.) A peculiar East Indian
mammal (Galleopithecus volans), having along the sides,
connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachutelike membrane, by
means of which it is able to make long leaps, like the flying
squirrel; -- called also flying lemur.


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