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A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color.

An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See Acolyte.

To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate. The decollated head of St. John the Baptist. Burke.

Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells.

The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.

The upper border or part of a décolleté corsage.

Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.

Beheading. [R.] By a speedy dethroning and decolling of the king. Parliamentary History (1648).

To furnish or surround with a collar. [R.]

A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, with a sweet taste, formed from hippuric acid by boiling with hydrochloric acid, and present in bile united with cholic acid. It is also formed from gelatin by decomposition with acids. Chemically, it is amido-acetic acid. Called also glycin, and glycocin.

See Semiglutin.

Fish glue; isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds of certain fishes.

Existing or carried on between colleges or universities; as, intercollegiate relations, rivalry, games, etc.

Situated between hills; -- applied especially to valleys lying between volcanic cones.

Wrong collocation. De Quincey.

To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. Hitchcock.

Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.

A kind of glue obtained from bones. Ure.

A collection previously made. [R.]

A yellow crystalline substance allied to pyrrol, obtained by the distillation of gelatin.