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The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of bloot.

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

See Body cavity, under Body.

A struggling to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature. [Obs.]

A struggling; a contention. [Obs.] Colluctation with old hags and hobgoblins. Dr. H. More.

; to act in concert. If they let things take their course, they will be represented as colluding with sedition. Burke.

One who conspires in a fraud.

A neck or cervix. Dunglison.

rpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning. The foxe, maister of collusion. Spenser. That they [miracles] be done publicly, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion. Atterbury. By the ignorance of the merchants or dishonesty of the weavers, or the collu…

Characterized by collusion; done or planned in collusion. "Collusive and sophistical arguings." J. Trapp. "Collusive divorces." Strype.

Collusive.

A medicated wash for the mouth.

A collection or gathering, as of pus, or rubbish, or odds and ends.

A genus of harmless serpents.

like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber.

A peculiar East Indian mammal (Galleopithecus volans), having along the sides, connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachutelike membrane, by means of which it is able to make long leaps, like the flying squirrel; -- called also flying lemur.

See Calumba.

An order of birds, including the pigeons.

A dovecote or pigeon house.

A dovecote; a pigeon house. Sir T. Browne.