Hypertext Webster Gateway: "colon"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Condor \Con"dor\ (k[o^]n"d[o^]r; in defs. 2 & 3, k[-o]n"d[-o]r),
n.
1. (Zo["o]l.) The California vulture. [Local, U. S.]
2. A gold coin of Chile, bearing the figure of a condor, and
equal to twenty pesos. It contains 10.98356 grams of gold,
and is equivalent to about $7.29. Called also {colon}.
3. A gold coin of Colombia equivalent to about $9.65. It is
no longer coined.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Colon \Co"lon\, n. [L. colon, colum, limb, member, the largest
of the intestines, fr. Gr. ?, and in sense of the intestine,
?: cf. F. colon. Cf. {Colic}.]
1. (Anat.) That part of the large intestines which extends
from the c[ae]cum to the rectum.
Note: [See Illust of {Digestion}.]
2. (Gram.) A point or character, formed thus [:], used to
separate parts of a sentence that are complete in
themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place
of a conjunction.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
colon
n 1: the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the
rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before
they are excreted
2: the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100
centavos [syn: {El Salvadoran colon}]
3: the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos
[syn: {Costa Rican colon}]
4: a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal
[syn: {Colon}, {Aspinwall}]
5: a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a
series or an example or an explanation (or after the
salutation of a business letter)
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