Emily Dickinson Lexicon

colonnade, n. [Fr. < It. colonna, column, pillar.]

Series of columns placed at regular intervals.

color (-s, -'s), n. [early ME colur.] (webplay: boast, borne, dye, face, gold, green, hue, light, quality, queen, red, show, water, white).

1. Particular hue or tint; attribute in virtue of which objects present different appearances to the eye, when considered with regard only to the kind of light reflected from their surfaces.
2. Flag; standard; ensign of a regiment in the military.
3. Dye; pigment; that which is used in coloring.
4. Vision; light; spectrum; visual radiation; sense of sight; [fig.] joy; vitality.
5. Kind; type; species.

color (-ed), v. [ME coloure.] (webplay: fair, goods, paint, vermillion).

Dye; paint; imbue; give color to.

colored, verbal adj. [see color, v.] (webplay: striped).

Diversified with a variety of hues.

colossal, adj. [L. < Gk. kolossos, gigantic statue.]

Enormous; huge; vast in its scope, sphere, and extent.

columba, n. [L. columba, pigeon; see Columbus.] (webplay: dove).

Messenger fowl; passenger-pigeon; member of the pigeon family; flying creature that found dry land for Noah (see Genesis 8:8-11); [fig.] emblem of peace; sign of deliverance; symbol of the Holy Ghost; [fig.] poet; seeker of truth; [word play] Columbus; explorer who found land in the Americas; [metaphor] Columbia; America; citizen of New England.

columbine, n. [Fr. < med. L. columbina, dove's plant.]

Aquilegia; Thalictrum; feathered meadow-rue; star-shaped bloom with tendrils; flowering plant with dove-colored blossoms; [personification] dear girl; maid-servant; pantomime heroine; famous coquette in Old Italian comedy.

Columbus, proper n. [L. columba 'dove'; see columba.]

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506); man who encountered the Americas in October 1492 while searching for the east Indies [see ED letters]; Spanish explorer originally from Genoa in Italy; [fig.] treasure seeker; pilgrim to the promised land.

column (-s), n. [OFr colompne < L. columen, elevated object, pillar, column < celsus, high, lofty.]

1. Large group of military troops; organized in rows.
2. Anything of columnar shape or appearance.

columnar, adj. [see column, n.] (webplay: base, division).

Similar to a column in shape or other properties.