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Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues. That he [Attebury] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, . . . is true. Macau…

A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. Volumes without the collector's own reflections. Addison.

il 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.

y, 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 collusion of both, the ware was bad and the price excessive. Swift.

An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.

A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper.

and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable. Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter. South.

e who has arrived, and is present. All comers, all who come, or offer, to take part in a matter, especially in a contest or controversy. "To prove it against all comers." Bp. Stillingfleet.

Matter; affair.

by the observance of the Fourth of July. We are called upon to commemorate a revolution. Atterbury.

recommend as worthy of confidence or regard; to present as worthy of notice or favorable attention. Among the objects of knowlwdge, two especially commend themselves to our contemplation. Sir M. Hale. I commend unto you Phebe our sister. Rom. xvi. 1.

e interstate commerce commission. A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter. Prescott.

One intrusted with a commission, now only a small commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services as a light porter, messenger, solicitor for hotels, etc.

sted by local laws with various powers in reference to the roads, courthouses, financial matters, etc., of the county. [U. S.]

One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.

One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or bussiness is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together. Commitee of the whole [house], a committee, embracing all the members present, into which a legislative or deliberative body sometimes res…

ich existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659.

evolutionary government, modeled on the commune of 1792, which the communists, so called, attempted to establish in 1871.

the sacrament of the Lord's supper; a church member. A never-failing monthly communicant. Atterbury.

To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany. [R.] Ruskin.