[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

condor \con"dor\ ko^n"do^r; in defs. 2  3, k-on"d-or,
   n. sp. condor, fr. peruvian cuntur.
   1. zool. a very large bird of the vulture family
      sarcorhamphus gryphus, found in the most elevated
      parts of the andes.
      1913 webster

   2. zool. the california vulture gymnogyps
      californianus, also called california condor. local,
      u. s.

   note: in the late 20th century it is classed as an endangered
         species. the california condor used to number in the
         thousands and ranged along the entire west coast of the
         united states. by 1982 only 21 to 24 individuals could
         be identified in the wild. a breeding program was
         instituted, and by 1996 over 50 birds were alive in
         captivity. as of 1997, fewer than ten of the bred birds
         had been reintroduced into the wild.
         webster 1913 suppl. +pjc

   3. 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.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   4. a gold coin of colombia equivalent to about $9.65. it is
      no longer coined.
      webster 1913 suppl.
see also:
sarcorhamphus gryphus gymnogyps californianus california condor colon 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

colon \co"lon\ k=o"lo^n, n. l. colon, colum, limb,
   member, the largest of the intestines, fr. gr. kw^lon, and in
   sense of the intestine, ko`lon: cf. f. colon. cf. colic.
   1. anat. that part of the large intestines which extends
      from the caecum to the rectum.

   note: see illust. of digestion.
         1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
colic digestion 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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: 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
     also: colones pl, cola pl
see also:
el salvadoran colon costa rican colon aspinwall colones cola 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

165 moby thesaurus words for "colon":
   alexandrine, deutschmark, mark, reichsmark, abdomen, accent,
   accentuation, afghani, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest,
   anna, antispast, anus, appendix, arsis, bacchius, baht, beat,
   blind gut, boundary, bowels, brain, cadence, caesura, catalexis,
   cecum, cent, centavo, centime, chloriamb, chloriambus, comma,
   conto, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis,
   dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, dollar, dong, duodenum, elegiac,
   elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, endocardium,
   entrails, epitrite, feminine caesura, florin, foot, foregut, franc,
   giblets, gizzard, guilder, gulden, guts, heart, heptameter,
   heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, hindgut, iamb,
   iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, innards, inner mechanism,
   insides, internals, intestine, inwards, ionic, jejunum, jingle,
   juncture, kidney, kip, kishkes, kopeck, krona, krone,
   large intestine, lilt, lira, liver, liver and lights, lung,
   masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot,
   metrical group, metrical unit, metron, midgut, milreis, molossus,
   mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pause, pentameter, pentapody,
   perineum, period, peseta, pie, piece of eight, pistareen, point,
   pound, proceleusmatic, pump, pylorus, pyrrhic, quantity, rand,
   rectum, rhythm, rial, ruble, rupee, semicolon, shekel, shilling,
   small intestine, sol, sou, spleen, spondee, sprung rhythm, stiver,
   stomach, stop, stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody,
   tetraseme, thesis, ticker, tribrach, trimeter, tripes, tripody,
   triseme, trochee, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, won, works,
   yen

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

colon
     
         ":".  ascii character 58.  common names:
        itu-t: colon.  rare: dots; intercal: two-spot.
     
        1995-09-25
     
     
see also:
ascii itu-t intercal 

[6] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

colony. a union of citizens or subjects who have left their country to 
people another, and remain subject to the mother country. 3 w. c. c. r. 287. 
the country occupied by the colonists is also called a colony. a colony 
differs from a possession, or a dependency. q.v. for a history of the 
american colonies, the reader is referred to story on the constitution, book 
i.; 1 kent, com. 77 to 80; 1 dane's ab. index, b. t. 

[7] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

colon, mi village, fips 17360
  location: 41.95902 n, 85.32347 w
  population 1990: 1224 588 housing units
  area: 3.6 sq km land, 0.8 sq km water
  zip codes: 49040
colon, nc
  zip codes: 27330
colon, ne village, fips 10005
  location: 41.29776 n, 96.60645 w
  population 1990: 128 54 housing units
  area: 0.3 sq km land, 0.0 sq km water
  zip codes: 68018

[8] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

colon, ne -- u.s. village in nebraska
   population 2000:    138
   housing units 2000: 54
   land area 2000:     0.132249 sq. miles 0.342524 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.000000 sq. miles 0.000000 sq. km
   total area 2000:    0.132249 sq. miles 0.342524 sq. km
   fips code:            10005
   located within:       nebraska ne, fips 31
   location:             41.297761 n, 96.606757 w
   zip codes 1990:     68018
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    colon, ne
    colon

[9] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

colon, mi -- u.s. village in michigan
   population 2000:    1227
   housing units 2000: 639
   land area 2000:     1.391219 sq. miles 3.603240 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.317522 sq. miles 0.822379 sq. km
   total area 2000:    1.708741 sq. miles 4.425619 sq. km
   fips code:            17360
   located within:       michigan mi, fips 26
   location:             41.955853 n, 85.322522 w
   zip codes 1990:     49040
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    colon, mi
    colon

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