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k, heavy piece of wood. Morton. Chump end, the thick end; as, the chump end of a joint of meat. Dickens.

flesh. (b) A small variety of watermelon, whose solid white flesh is used in making sweetmeats and preserves. -- Citron tree (Bot.), the tree which bears citrons. It was probably a native of northern India, and is now understood to be the typical form of Citrus Medica.

arge, hard-shelled nut of the cocoa palm. It yields an agreeable milky liquid and a white meat or albumen much used as food and in making oil.

To put a collar on. To collar beef (or other meat), to roll it up, and bind it close with a string preparatory to cooking it.

hat accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries. A collation of wine and sweetmeats. Whiston. Collation of seals (Old Law), a method of ascertaining the genuineness of a seal by comparing it with another known to be genuine. Bouvier.

A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh. God knows thou art a collop of my flesh. Shak. Sweetbread and collops were with skewers pricked. Dryden.

A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.

To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of. [Obs.] Saffron confected in Cilicia. W. Browne.

A preparation of fruits or roots, etc., with sugar; a sweetmeat. Certain confections . . . are like to candied conserves, and are made of sugar and lemons. Bacon.

Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies.

Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats. [Obs.] Beaumont.

Bonbons; sweetmeats; confections; also, plaster or paper imitations of, or substitutes for, bonbons, often used by carnival revelers, at weddings, etc.

Anything which is conserved; especially, a sweetmeat prepared with sugar; a confection. I shall . . . study broths, plasters, and conserves, till from a fine lady I become a notable woman. Tatler.

One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed. [Written also cobra, copperah, coppra.]

An allowance of meat, drink, or clothing due from an abbey or other religious house for the sustenance of such of the king's servants as he may designate to receive it. [Written also corrody.]

tion. It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray.

A ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, or other ingredients, highly seasoned, and fried.

A strong broth of meat, strained and made clear for invalids; also, a savory jelly. [Obs.] When I am exellent at caudles And cullises . . . you shall be welcome to me. Beau. & Fl.

A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling.