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An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.

To be affected of influented by. [R.] The upper regions of the air perceive the collection of the matter of tempests before the air here below. Bacon.

The collection of postage stamps of various issues.

A collection of phrases; a phrase book. [R.]

A plantation of pine trees; esp., a collection of living pine trees made for ornamental or scientific purposes.

A plume or collection of ornamental feathers.

In bibliography, a collection of different works, either by one or several authors. Brande & C.

A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon. Wyclif. Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. Bacon. The sleepy pool above the dam. Tennyson.…

A collection of people; a throng; a rabble. [Colloq.]

An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.

Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections. She is more precious than rules. Prov. iii. 15. Many things which are most precious are neglected only because the value of them lieth hid. Hooker.

One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc. Agassiz.

Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; -- opposed to deutero-canonical.

act, practice, or art of singing psalms or sacred songs; also, psalms collectively, or a collection of psalms.

A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.

A collection or combination of four of a kind.

A collection or combination of five of a kind.

A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream.

A place where rabbits are kept; especially, a collection of hutches for tame rabbits.

A collection of logs, boards, pieces of timber, or the like, fastened, together, either for their own collective conveyance on the water, or to serve as a support in conveying other things; a float.