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To embrace. [Obs.] "They coll and kiss him." Latimer.

See Collaborator.

The act ofworking together; united labor.

An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor.

The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.

Containing or resembling collagen.

together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses. A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it. Maunder.

Collapse. [R.] Johnson.

ing worn round the neck, whether for use, ornament, restraint, or identification; as, the collar of a coat; a lady's collar; the collar of a dog.

The clavicle.

Young cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort. [Colloq. Souther U. S.]

Wearing a collar. "Collared with gold." Chaucer.

A small collar; specif., a woman's collar of lace, fur, or other fancy material.

Capable of being collated. Coleridge.

as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement. I must collage it, word, with the original Hebrew. Coleridge.

Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure. "Collateral light." Shak.

Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins.

The state of being collateral.

The act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general. Pope.

One who examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc. [Eng.]