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Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass.

The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively.

Wares; commodities; chattels; -- formerly used in the singular in a collective sense. In law, a comprehensive name for almost all personal property as distinguished from land or real property. Wharton. He hath made us spend much good. Chaucer. Thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of…

the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively. Storehouses crammed with grain. Shak.

The pistils of a flower, taken collectively. See Illust. of Carpophore.

The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the s…

That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen nations, considered collectively.

The sovereign of heaven; God; also, the assembly of the blessed, collectively; -- used variously in this sense, as in No. 2. Her prayers, whom Heaven delights to hear. Shak. The will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven. Milton.

The Helots, collectively; slaves; bondsmen. "The Helotry of Mammon." Macaulay.

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

Highlanders, collectively.

To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body. Pope.

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.

of a particular country or period; as, the hymnology of the eighteenth century; also, the collective body of hymns used by any particular church or religious body; as, the Anglican hymnology.

The sum owed; debts, collectively.