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A collection of flowers; a garland. [R.]

A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.

One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York. -- An`ti*rent"ism, n.

One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody.

pope or the papacy; papal. Apostolical brief. See under Brief. -- Apostolic canons, a collection of rules and precepts relating to the duty of Christians, and particularly to the ceremonies and discipline of the church in the second and third centuries. -- Apostolic church, the Christian church; -- so called on accou…

Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism.

eek what satisfies the wants of its organism. These lacteals have mouths, and by animal selection or appetency the absorb such part of the fluid as is agreeable to their palate. E. Darwin.

t; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception. Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. Glanvill.

A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.

A collection or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers.

The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers. A gallant array of nobles and cavaliers. Prescott.

A collection of serous fluid in the cavity of the abdomen; dropsy of the peritoneum. Dunglison.

An instrument for the evacuation of the fluid contents of tumors or collections of blood.

A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of particular things; as, a political assemblage; an assemblage of ideas.

A collection of inanimate objects. [Obs.] Howell.

A collection or quantity of things distributed into kinds or sorts; a number of things assorted.

A collection of maps in a volume; --

A Scottish phrase used in recalling recollections of times long since past. "The days of auld lang syne."

A system of balloting or voting in public elections, originally used in South Australia, in which there is such an arrangement for polling votes that secrecy is compulsorily maintained, and the ballot used is an official ballot printed and distributed by the government.

A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its authencity. Bouvier.