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One who conspires in a fraud.

Same as Collar. Gray.

purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning. The foxe, maister of collusion. Spenser. That they [miracles] be done publicly, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion. Atterbury. By the ignorance of the merchants or dishonesty of the weavers, or the co…

Characterized by collusion; done or planned in collusion. "Collusive and sophistical arguings." J. Trapp. "Collusive divorces." Strype.

Collusive.

A medicated wash for the mouth.

A collection or gathering, as of pus, or rubbish, or odds and ends.

To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime. [Archaic.] Thou hast not collied thy face enough. B. Jonson. Brief as the lighting in the collied night. Shak.

A money changer. [Obs.] In the face of these guilty collybists. Bp. Hall.

An application to the eye, usually an eyewater.

A defect or malformation; esp., a fissure of the iris supposed to be a persistent embryonic cleft.

A South American wild cat (Felis colocolo), of the size of the ocelot.

The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, or Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd.

The active medicinal principle of colocynth; a bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside.

liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne.

An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.

A large size of paper for drawings. See under Paper.

See Calumbin.

See Calumba.

That part of the large intestines which extends from the cæcum to the rectum.