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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

colin

; prop. a dim. of

Colas

, contr. fr.

Nicolas

Nicholas.]

(Zool.)

The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See

Noun.

A bird of the partridge kind, found in America and the West Indies, called.

See also: colin, Colin, and çolin

colîn m ‎(plural colîns)