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A small European titmouse (Parus ater), so named from its black color; -- called also coalmouse and colemouse.

A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves.

A variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head.

A crafty fox. [Obs.] Chaucer.

omen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera. Hepatic colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a gallstone from the liver or gall bladder through the bile duct. -- Intestinal colic, or Ordinary colic, pain due to distention of the intestines by gas. -- Lead colic, Painter'…

Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, colic. Swift.

Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder.

A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.

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

The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world. [Written also Colosseum.]

An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis.

To embrace. [Obs.] "They coll and kiss him." Latimer.

See Collaborator.

The act ofworking together; united labor.

An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor.

The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.

Containing or resembling collagen.

together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses. A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it. Maunder.

Collapse. [R.] Johnson.

ing worn round the neck, whether for use, ornament, restraint, or identification; as, the collar of a coat; a lady's collar; the collar of a dog.