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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).

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

A coheir.

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 diff…

works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb.

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.

solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a containing for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography. Collodion process (Photog.), a process in which a film of sensitiz…

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

A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne.

Like a snake; cunning; crafty. Johnson.

A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads. Byron.

y 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.

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