COLLECTION

n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

2.
n.

That which is collected; as: (a) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay.

3.
n.

A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings. "The collection for the saints." 1 Cor. xvi. 1

4.
n.

An accumulation of any substance. "Collections of moisture." Whewell. "A purulent collection." Dunglison.

5.
n.

The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. [Obs.] We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. Milton.

6.
n.

The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. [Eng.]

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