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A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.

Of or pertaining to the colleterium of insects. R. Owen.

An organ of female insects, containing a cement to unite the ejected ova.

Agglutinant. -- n.

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

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.

Same as Recollect, n.

s surrounded by a number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the gridle by a pavilion of elongated facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is entirely covered with facets on the surface, and is flat below. This snuffbox --…

Assemblage of related things; colletion; complication. This parable of the wedding supper comprehends in it the whole complex of all the blessings and privileges exhibited by the gospel. South. Complex of lines (Geom.), all the possible straight lines in space being considered, the entire system of lines which satisfy…

A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See Collet, 3 (b).

ed by knocking out; as, a knock-out blow; a knock-out key for knocking out a drill from a collet.

al stages, burrow in and eat the parenchyma of leaves; as, the pear-tree leaf miner (Lithocolletis geminatella). -- Leaf notcher (Zoöl.), a pale bluish green beetle (Artipus Floridanus), which, in Florida, eats the edges of the leaves of orange trees. -- Leaf roller (Zoöl.), the larva of any tortricid moth which make…

Cut low in the neck; decollete; -- said of a woman's dress.

That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.

A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans. [Written also Recollet.] Addis & Arnold.

One of the Australian wattle trees (Acacia colletioides), so called from the impenetrability of the thicket which it makes.