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Herbs collectively; green food beasts; grass; pasture. "Thin herbage in the plaims." Dryden.

Highlanders, collectively.

Of or pert. to the arctic regions collectively; specif. (Zoögeography),

air of a horse, especially one from the mane or tail; the hairs of the mane or tail taken collectively; a fabric or tuft made of such hairs. Horsehair worm (Zoöl.), the hair worm or gordius.

That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively. Fabyan.

Mankind collectively; the human race. But hearing oftentimes The still, and music humanity. Wordsworth. It is a debt we owe to humanity. S. S. Smith.

All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds.

Hymns, considered collectively; hymnology.

The sum owed; debts, collectively.

dividual manner or relation; as individuals; separately; each by itself. "Individually or collectively." Burke. How should that subsist solitarily by itself which hath no substance, but individually the very same whereby others subsist with it Hooker.

the parts separately to the whole which they constitute, or into which they may be united collectively; the operation of discovering and proving general propositions; the scientific method. -- Philosophical induction, the inference, or the act of inferring, that what has been observed or established in respect to a pa…

The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively; as, the iron interest; the cotton interest. Compound interest, interest, not only on the original principal, but also on unpaid interest from the time it fell due. -- Simple interest, interest on the principal sum without interest on ove…

ic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.

A native or inhabitant of Japan; collectively, the people of Japan.

Jewels, collectively; as, a bride's jewelry.

ocal cant] Johny Crapaud (, a jocose designation of a Frenchman, or of the French people, collectively.

judicial power is vested; the system of courts of justice in a country; the judges, taken collectively; as, an independent judiciary; the senate committee on the judiciary.

To body of knights, taken collectively.

Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches.

The act or process of covering with laths; laths, collectively; a covering of laths.