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The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite.

A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries. A collation of wine and sweetmeats. Whiston. Collation of seals (Old Law), a method of ascertaining the genuineness of a seal by comparing it with another know…

nity. [R.] Thick as the college of the bees in May. Dryden. College of justice, a term applied in Scotland to the supreme civil courts and their principal officers. -- The sacred college, the college or cardinals at Rome.

The division of Thysanura which includes Podura, and allied forms.

To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime. [Archaic.] Thou hast not collied thy face enough. B. Jonson. Brief as the lighting in the collied night. Shak.

the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, or Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd.

Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.

A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes. He doth bestride the narrow world Like a colossus. Shak.

The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.

A term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columnella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear.

Any bird of the genus Colius and allied genera. They inhabit Africa.

Any crinoid of the genus Antedon or allied genera.

The cabrilla. Also, a name applied to a species of wrasse. [Prov. Eng.]

to be worn on the head. The baldness, thinness, and . . . deformity of their hair is supplied by borders and combings. Jer. Taylor.

A body of followers; -- applied to the lawless or brigand bands in Italy and Sicily.

The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.

nstrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; -- applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.

One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices.

A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo.

Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.