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ect participle. The Tyrian queen . . . Admired his fortunes, more admired the man; Then recollected stood. Dryden.

The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as, an event within my recollection.

cay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city. Sunk down and sought repair Of sleep, which instantly fell on me. Milton.

A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like.

A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.

Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.

The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers. [In this sense sewage is preferable and common.]

A fold or pen for sheep; a place where sheep are collected or confined.

A narrow, elongated cavity, in which pus is collected; an elongated abscess with only a small orifice.

The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.

Movables of an inferior description; especially, such as have been collected by depredation. [Scot]

Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity. It is charged with stored virtue. Bagehot.

Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage. [Obs.] The streets were exceedingly large, well paved, having many vaults and conveyances under them for sullage. Evelyn.

Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.

A great quantity of anything collected for future use; abundance; plenty. We have treasures in the field, of wheat and of barley, and of oil and of honey. Jer. xli. 8.

he same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority; one who has charge of collected funds; as, the treasurer of a society or corporation. Lord high treasurer of England, formerly, the third great officer of the crown. His office is now executed by five persons styled the lords commissioners of the treas…

ray the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.

Not embodied; not collected into a body; not yet organized; as, unembodied militia.

ch the nitrogen evolved by the action of certain reagents, on a given volume of urine, is collected and measured, and the urea calculated accordingly.

Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc. The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, where rain water hath a long time settled. Mortimer.