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A rustic high shoe or half-boots. [Obs.] Drayton.

The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners. Raymond.

The region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively. Thackeray.

Eng.] It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail. Thackeray.

ny of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas! Thackeray. He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation. Southey.

To secure from leaking, as a chaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering. Raymond.

A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle. Gray.

The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem. Gray.

A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy. The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse. Macaulay.

ass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like; -- called also multiple fruit. Gray.

ion; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.

r slit which is at the principal focus of the lens, used for producing a beam of parallel rays; also, a lens so used.

ly; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief. [Archaic or Colloq.] Pray go in; and, sister, salve the matter, Collogue with her again, and all shall be well. Greene. He had been colloguing with my wife. Thackeray.

Same as Collar. Gray.

or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to aint; to stain. The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color. Sir I. Newton.

Colored. [Obs.] Ray.

lor than green. Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green. Gray.

Something suitable to be eaten; -- commonly in the plural. Thackeray.

Holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop. Burke. Commendatory prayer (Book of Common Prayer), a prayer read over the dying. "The commendatory prayer was said for him, and, as it ended, he [William III.] died." Bp. Burnet.

for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere. Commission of array. (Eng. Hist.) See under Array. -- Commission of bankrupty, a commission apointing and empowering certain persons to examine into the facts relative to an alleged bankrupty, and to secure the bankrupt's lands and effects for t…