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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,522 words match “COLL”

COLLECTOR n. 5 definitions

One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting 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.

COLLECTORATE n.

The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.

COLLECTORSHIP n.

The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.

A girl; a maiden. [Anglo-Irish]

A joint legatee.

COLLEGE n. 4 definitions

A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. The college of the cardinals. Shak. Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons…

Collegiate. [R.]

A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college.

COLLEGIATE a. 2 definitions

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 division of Thysanura which includes Podura, and allied forms.

A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.

COLLET n. 4 definitions

A small collar or neckband. Foxe.

Of or pertaining to the colleterium of insects. R. Owen.

An organ of female insects, containing a cement to unite the ejected ova.

COLLETIC a. 2 definitions

Agglutinant. -- n.

COLLIDE v. 2 definitions

To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided. Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate. Tyndall. No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding. Carlyle.

One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids.

remarkable for its intelligence, displayed especially in caring for flocks. [Written also colly, colley.]

Darkened. See Colly, v. t.