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To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center. Where there is no visible truth wherein to center, error is as wide as men's fancies. Dr. H. More. Our hopes must center in ourselves alone. Dryden.

and in giving a preference; discrimination. I imagine they [the apothegms of Cæsar] were collected with judgment and choice. Bacon.

With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak.

A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands. "Cluster of provinces." Motley.

Raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped. [R.] Bacon.

o one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. Shak. 'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. Watts.

Capable of being collected.

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

In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.

That which is caught or collected with a comb, as loose, tangled hair.

Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate [lymphatic] glands; conglobate flowers.

Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light. Beams of light when they are multiplied and conglomerate. Bacon. Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands. Cheyne.

The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation; that which is conglomerated; a mixed mass. Bacon.

Collected; compact; close. [R.] Bacon.

A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference.

, are Lancaster, Chester, and Durham. -- County rates, rates levied upon the county, and collected by the boards of guardians, for the purpose of defraying the expenses to which counties are liable, such as repairing bridges, jails, etc. [Eng.] -- County seat, a county town. [U.S.] -- County sessions, the general quar…

The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.

A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other. A crowd of islands. Pope.

and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. Cook. The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. Hazlitt.

dealing out. Distributing past office, an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded.