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The division of Thysanura which includes Podura, and allied forms.

A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.

A small collar or neckband. Foxe.

Of or pertaining to the colleterium of insects. R. Owen.

An organ of female insects, containing a cement to unite the ejected ova.

Agglutinant. -- n.

See Collie.

To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided. Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate. Tyndall. No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding. Carlyle.

One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids.

remarkable for its intelligence, displayed especially in caring for flocks. [Written also colly, colley.]

Darkened. See Colly, v. t.

One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.

The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.

See Cauliflower.

To tie or bind together. The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows. Nicholson.

ed that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse. "The colligation of facts." Whewell. Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation. J. S. Mill.

To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.

The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument. Error of collimation, the deviation of the line collimation of an astronomical instrument from the position it ought to have with…

A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal. Nichol.

A very pure form of gelatin.