Col-lēct’or, n.

n. [L. Lat. & Lat. collector, Fr. collecteur.] 1. One who collects or gathers things which are scattered or separate; especially, one who makes a business of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, and the like. The best English historian, when his style grows antiquated, will be only considered as a tedious relater of facts, and perhaps consulted to furnish materials for some future collector. Swift.

2. (Com.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. Temple.
3. (pl.) (Bot.) Dense hairs covering the styles of some plants, as the Compositæ, which seem intended as brushes to clear the pollen out of the cells of the anthers. Lindley.
4. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, who is appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. Todd.