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business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb.

The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.

The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.

An antiquary; a collector of antiques. [R.] Pinkerton.

A collector or maker of apothegms. Pope.

An amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist.

The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. [Eng.]

The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.

Any curiosity or article of virtu. The busy world, which does not hunt poets as collectors hunt for curios. F. Harrison.

A collector of gabels or taxes.

One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.

A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce.

A person that is skilled or curious in medals; a collector of medals. Addison.

st. -- Orange cowry (Zoöl.), a large, handsome cowry (Cypræa aurantia), highly valued by collectors of shells on account of its rarity. -- Orange grass (Bot.), an inconspicuous annual American plant (Hypericum Sarothra), having minute, deep yellow flowers. -- Orange oil (Chem.), an oily, terpenelike substance obtain…

A collector or writer of proverbs. [R.]

A collector or coiner of phrases.

A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation. As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. Matt. 1x. 10. How like…

A collector of parish rents. Blount. [Obs.]

A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as an evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title.

colonies, and declaring all writings on unstamped materials to be null an void. -- Stamp collector, an officer who receives or collects stamp duties; one who collects postage or other stamps. -- Stamp duty, a duty, or tax, imposed on paper and parchment used for certain writings, as deeds, conveyances, etc., the evid…