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The nest complement of eggs of a bird. Bayonet clutch (Mach.), a clutch in which connection is made by means of bayonets attached to arms sliding on a feathered shaft. The bayonets slide through holes in a crosshead fastened on the shaft.

A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal.

blackleg. J. Randolph. The coalition between the religious and worldly enemies of popery. Macaulay.

set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner. They cocked their hats in each other's faces. Macaulay.

kney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. Macaulay.

A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights. Henry the Eight had built . . . a cockpit. Macaulay.

y marine, comprising the Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Ctenophora. The name implies that the stomach and body cavities are one. The group is sometimes enlarged so as to include the sponges.

me what the journalists of our own time have been called -- a fourth estate of the realm. Macaulay.

terfeit money. Precautions such as are employed by coiners and receivers of stolen goods. Macaulay.

he main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, . . . is true. Macaulay.

of a liturgy. The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse. Macaulay.

d; as: (a) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay.

Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note. Collective fruit (Bot.), that which is formed from a mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like; -- called also multiple fruit. Gray.

A building, or number of buildings, used by a college. "The gate of Trinity College." Macaulay.

lo"qui*al*ly, adv. His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the highest order. Macaulay.

The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.

A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy. My courage try by combat, if thou dar'st. Shak. The noble combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in Paulina. Shak.

he mighty combatants." Milton. A controversy which long survived the original combatants. Macaulay

One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.

See Coamings. Combing machine (Textile Manuf.), a machine for combing wool, flax, cotton, etc., and separating the longer and more valuable fiber from the shorter. See also Carding machine, under Carding.