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Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.

Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government. Milton.

Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively. His crown usurped, a distaff on the throne. Dryden. Some say the crozier, some say the distaff was too busy. Howell.

Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively; as, a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as each, either, every; a distributive numeral, as (Latin) bini (two by two). Distributive operation (Math.), any operation which either consists of two or more parts, or works upon two or more things, and w…

By distribution; singly; not collectively; in a distributive manner.

Office of an elder; collectively, a body of elders.

A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.

Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons.

Surroundings; specif., collectively, one's attendants or associates.

ood fortune; good luck. Now fair befall thee ! Shak. The fair, anything beautiful; women, collectively. "For slander's mark was ever yet the fair." Shak.

t and cultivate any peculiar taste or fancy; hence, especially, sporting characters taken collectively, or any specific class of them, as jockeys, gamblers, prize fighters, etc. At a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the fancy. De Quincey.

An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands.

chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.

A citizen of Ferrara; collectively, the inhabitants of Ferrara.

The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.

A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.

The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders. Flemish accounts (Naut.), short or deficient accounts. [Humorous]Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Flemish beauty (Bot.), a well known pear. It is one of few kinds which have a red color on one side. -- Flemish bond. (Arch.) See Bond, n., 8…

State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. Tennyson.

Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle. Fluting iron, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron. Knight. -- Fluting lathe, a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on bal…

Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.