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One versed in, or who studies, climatology.

to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together. And let me the canakin clink. Shak.

Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient. [R.]

e; as, to close a bargain; to close a course of instruction. One frugal supper did our studies close. Dryden.

lum or a curdlike mass; curdled. Coagulated proteid (Physiol. Chem.), one of a class of bodies formed in the coagulation of a albuminous substance by heat, acids, or other agents.

The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms. Bentley.

One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.

The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant.

A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera.

To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience.

hrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off. [R.] Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces. J. Dennis To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. Swift.

Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid. Arbuthnot.

roughout the mass, whether like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces. Solids and fluids differ in the degree of cohesion, which, being increased, turns a fluid into a solid. Arbuthnot.

A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.

tropical Africa, esp. Guinea, but now naturalized in tropical America, esp. in the West Indies and Brazil.

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…

trike or dash against. [Obs.] Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided. Sir T. Browne.

A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.

The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.

used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style. -- Col*lo"qui*al*ly, adv. His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the highest order. Macaulay.