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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 714 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLON . (I) (Gr. KoXov, miswritten and mispronounced as ,c Xov, the See also:

term being taken from Ko)tos, curtailed), in See also:anatomy, that See also:part of the greater See also:intestine which extends from the caecum to the rectum (see ALIMENTARY See also:CANAL). (a) (Gr. Kw)wv, a member or part), originally in See also:Greek See also:rhetoric a See also:short clauselonger than the "See also:comma," hence a See also:mark (:), in See also:punctuation, used to show a break in construction greater than that marked by the semicolon (;), and less than that marked by the See also:period or full stop. The sign is also used in psalters and the like to mark off periods for chanting. The word is applied in See also:palaeography to a unit of measure in See also:MSS., amounting in length to a See also:hexameter See also:line.

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