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To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] Johnson.

Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.

Mutual help; coöperation. [R.] Johnson.

The indicator of a balance. Johnson.

Peppergrass. Johnson.

A gatherer of cods or peas. [Obs. or Prov.] Johnson.

Participation of the same essence. Johnson.

'st thou have laughed, had I come coffined home Shak. Devotion is not coffined in a cell. John Hall (1646).

The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

Collapse. [R.] Johnson.

simply collar. -- Collar of brawn, the quantity of brawn bound up in one parcel. [Eng.] Johnson. -- Collar day, a day of great ceremony at the English court, when persons, who are dignitaries of honorary orders, wear the collars of those orders. -- To slip the collar, to get free; to disentangle one's self from dif…

Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. Johnson. Collegiate church. (a) A church which, although not a bishop's seat, resembles a cathedral in having a college, or chapter of canons (and, in the Church of England, a dean), as Westminster Abbey. (b) An association of churches, posses…

The coal trade. [Obs.] Johnson.

The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. [R.] Johnson.

uial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style. -- Col*lo"qui*al*ly, adv. His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the highest order. Macaulay.

Like a snake; cunning; crafty. Johnson.

ey or form a distance. "Thy kingdom come." Matt. vi. 10. The hour is comming, and now is. John. v. 25. So quik bright things come to confusion. Shak.

thing less forcible than beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than prettiness. Johnson.

y imply rather an augmentation of the power of bearing, than a diminution of the burden." Johnson.

h is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things. John xiv. 26.