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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Col-lēct'i-ble, a. p. 251Capable of being collected, gathered, or inferred.Col-lĕc'tion, n. p. 251The act of collecting or gathering. 2. That which is gathered or drawn together. “Expanded and open collections of moisture.” Whewell. “A collection of letters purporting to have been written by that…Cŏl/lec-tĭ'tiŏŭs, a. p. 251Gathered up. [Obs.] Bailey.Col·lēct′ive, a. p. 251Formed by gathering; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the whole collective body of a nation. Hoadley. 2. Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring. “Falsities…Col-lēct'ive-ly, adv. p. 251In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.Col-lēct'ive-ness, n. p. 251A state of union; mass.Col-lēct’or, n. p. 251One 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…Col-lĕc'tor-ship or Col-lĕc'tor-ate, n. p. 251The office of a collector of customs or taxes. 2. The jurisdiction of a collector.Col-lēg'a-ta-ry, n. p. 251(Law.) A person who has a legacy left to him, in common with one or more other persons. Johnson.Cŏl'le'ge, n. p. 251A collection, body, or society of men invested with certain rights or engaged in common pursuits; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. Hook. I would the college of…Col-lē'gi-al, a. p. 251Relating or belonging to a college; having the properties of a college.Col-lē'gi-an, n. p. 251A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; an inhabitant of a college; a collegiate. Johnson.Col-lē'ġi-ate, a. p. 251Pertaining to, or resembling, a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. Johnson. Collegiate church. (a.) A church built and endowed for a body corporate, consisting of a presiding…Col-lē'ġi-ate, n. p. 251A member of a college. Burton.Cŏl'let, n. p. 251A small collar or neck-band. [Obs.] Foxe. 2. The part of a ring in which the stone is set. How full the collet with his jewel is! Cowley. 3. (Bot.) A collar. See COLLAR.Cŏl'le-tē'ri-al, a. p. 251Of, or belonging to, the colleterium of insects. R. Owen.Cōl'le-tē'rĭ-um, n. p. 251(Entom.) An organ, in the females of insects, containing a whitish gluten for cementing together the ejected ova. Dana.Col-lēt'ic, n. p. 251An agglutinant.Col-līde′, v. i. p. 251To strike or dash against each other; to strike or dash;—followed by with.Cŏl'lie, n. p. 251See COLLY.Cŏl'lier, n. p. 251A digger of coal; one who works in a coal-mine. 2. A coal merchant, or dealer in coal. Bacon. 3. A vessel employed in the coal trade.Cŏll'ier-y, n. p. 251The place where coal is dug. See COLLIERY. 2. The coal trade.Cōl'li-flow-er, n. p. 251See CAULIFLOWER.Cŏl'li-gāte, v. t. p. 251To tie or bind together. [Obs.] “The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows.” Nicholson.Cŏl'li-gā'tion, n. p. 251A binding together. Browne.Cŏl'li-mā'ting, a. p. 251(Opt.) Pertaining to collimation. Collimating eye-piece, an eye-piece with a diagonal reflector for illumination, used to determine the error of collimation in a transit instrument by observing the…Col'li-mā'tion, n. p. 251The act of aiming at a mark; aim; the act of leveling, or of directing the sight to a fixed object. Error of collimation, the deviation of the line of collimation of an astronomical or geodetical…Cŏl'li-mā'tor, n. p. 251A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal. Nichol.cŏl'line, n. p. 251A small hill or mound. [Obs.] “And watered park, full of fine collines and ponds.” Evelyn.Col-līn-e-ā'tion, n. p. 251The act of aiming, or directing in a line to a fixed object. Johnson.Cŏl'ling, n. p. 251An embrace; dalliance. [Obs.] Chaucer.Co-lin'gual, a. p. 251Having, or pertaining to, the same language.Col-liq'ua-ble, a. p. 251Capable of being liquefied or melted; liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid. [Obs.] Harvey.Co-lig'ua-ment, n. p. 251The substance formed by melting; that which is melted. [Obs.] Bailey. 2. The first rudiments of an embryo in generation. Coxe.Cŏl'li-quant, a. p. 251Having the power of dissolving or melting. [Obs.] Bailey.Cŏl'li-quāte, v. t. p. 251To change from solid to fluid; to become liquid. [Obs.] Ice will dissolve in any way of heat; ... it will colliquate in water or warm oil. Browne.cŏl'li-quāte, v. t. p. 251To melt or dissolve. [Obs.] Boyle.Col·li·quā'tion, n. p. 251The act of melting. When sand and ashes are well melted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call “glass.” Boyle. 2. (Med.) The…Col-liq'ua-tive, a. p. 251Causing rapid waste or exhaustion; as, colliquative sweats.Col-liq'ue-fac'tion, n. p. 251A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. “The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction.” Bacon.Col-lĭs'ion, n. p. 251The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a clashing. The flint and the steel you may move apart as long as you please, but it is the hitting and collision of them…Col-lit'i-gant, n. p. 251One who litigates or wrangles with another.Col-lit'i-gant, a. p. 251Disputing with another; wrangling together; contending. [Obs.]Cŏl'lo-cāte, v. t. p. 251To set or place; to set; to station.Cŏl'lo-cate, a. p. 251Set; placed. Bacon.Cŏl'lo-cā'tion, n. p. 251The act of placing; disposition in place; as, the collocation of words. Harris. 2. The state of being placed, or placed with something else. Bacon.Cŏl·lo-cū'tion, n. p. 251A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse. [Obs.] Bailey.Cŏl·lo·cū'tor, n. p. 251One of the speakers in a dialogue. [Obs.] Derham.Col-lō'di-on, n. p. 251(Chem.) A solution of gun-cotton in ether. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons to close up wounds. It is also employed in photography. R. Hunt.Col-lō'di-on-ize, v. t. p. 251To prepare or treat with collodion. R. Hunt.Col-lōgue', v. t. p. 251To address with coaxing or flattery.Col·lōgue', v. i. p. 251To talk closely; to confer; to converse, especially with deceitful or delusive intentions. [Obs. or rare.] Pray go in; and, sister, salve the matter; Colloque with her again, and all shall be well.…Col-loid', n. p. 251(Med.) Resembling glue or jelly; as, colloid tumors.Cŏl'lop, n. p. 251A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh. God knows thou art a collop of my flesh, And for thy sake I have shed many a tear. Shak. Sweetbreads and collops were with skewers pricked. Dryden. 2. A part…Col-lō'qui-al, a. p. 251Pertaining to, or employed in, common conversation, as distinguished from formal or elegant discourse. His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the highest order. Macaulay.Col-lō'qui-al-ism, n. p. 251A colloquial form of expression.Col-lō'qui-al-ly, adv. p. 251By mutual conversation.Cŏl'lo-quist, n. p. 251A speaker in a dialogue. Malone.Cŏl'lo-quy, n. p. 252The mutual discourse of two or more; conference; dialogue. Milton.Cōl'lōw, n. & v. p. 252See COLLY.