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A colorless oily liquid related to the ketones, and obtained by the decomposition of pinacone; hence, by extension, any one of the series of which pinacolin proper is the type. [Written also pinacoline.]

One who flatters, or courts the favor of, the common people; a demagogue. [R.]

Any bird of the Old World genus Glareola, or family Glareolidæ, allied to the plovers. They have long, pointed wings and a forked tail.

A collection previously made. [R.]

An early larval form of a trematode worm; a redia. See Redia.

To make a protocol of.

One who draughts protocols.

A yellow crystalline substance allied to pyrrol, obtained by the distillation of gelatin.

To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re- collect routed troops. God will one day raise the dead, re-collecting our scattered dust. Barrow.

Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle. The Tyrian queen . . . Admired his fortunes, more admired the man; Then recollected stood. Dryden.

The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance.

Having the power of recollecting. J. Foster.

Same as Recollect, n.

A second or renewed colonization.

To colonize again.

Having the color of a pink rose; rose-pink; of a delicate pink color.

A genus of beautiful South American passerine birds, including the cock of the rock.

Rock-inhabiting.

An inhabitant of the country. [R.] Bailey.

A gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of Africa (Penæa), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers.