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To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate. Thither he assembled all his train. Milton. All the men of Israel assembled themselves. 1 Kings viii. 2.

A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.

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."

An amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist.

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

Upholding; defense; vindication. [Obs.] Can my avowance of king-murdering be collected from anything here written by me Fuller.

cing, to bet against a particular horse or horses, that some one of all the other horses, collectively designated "the field", will win. -- To back the oars, to row backward with the oars. -- To back a rope, to put on a preventer. -- To back the sails, to arrange them so as to cause the ship to move astern. -- To b…

A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.

ead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets.

One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather.

The collective body of baronets.

d as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively. Basement membrane (Anat.), a delicate membrane composed of a single layer of flat cells, forming the substratum upon which, in many organs, the epithelioid cells are disposed.

The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.

A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business. "A new batch of Lords." Lady M. W. Montagu.

Pebbles, collectively; shingle.

Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.

A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat. How far that little candle throws his beams ! Shak.

n some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.