Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Saiga .
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Examples
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Tyll eolus with blastes began to rore [text reads “colus”]
The Example of Vertu The Example of Virtue Stephen Hawes
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Orpheus carmine funditus, consumptos iterum deae supplent Eurydices colus! sed dum respicit immemor nec credens sibi redditam55
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Leges in superos datas et qui tempora digerit quattuor praecipitis deus anni, disposuit uices: 65 nulli non auidi colus
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Fortissimarum gentium dominus, qui inaudita ante se potentia colus Scythica et Germanica regna possedit.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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[15] [Footnote 13: Fortissimarum gentium dominus, qui inaudita ante se potentia colus Scythica et Germanica regna possedit.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
missanthropist commented on the word colus
A whitish beast with a hog's head who drinks through it's nostrils.
Elisha Cole's English Dictionary, 1713
May 20, 2008