Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CO-LOGNE'-EARTH
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CO-LOGNE'-EARTH, n. [colone-earth.]
A kind of light bastard ocher, of a deep brown color, not a pure native fossil, but containing more vegetable than mineral matter; supposed to be the remains of wood long buried in the earth. – Hill. It is an earthy variety of lignite or brown coal. – Cleaveland.
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