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One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.

The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.

ung disease, common among coal miners, due to the inhalation of coal dust; -- called also collier's lung and miner's phthisis.

cation; show; description; record. Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company. Collier. Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, Do give thee fivefold blazon. Shak.

iendship. To break upon the score of danger or expense is to be mean and narrow-spirited. Collier.

A claim or demand. [Obs.] There must be no challenge of superiority. Collier.

y of being clusy. The drudging part of life is chiefly owing to clumsiness and ignorance. Collier.

set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp. Collier. Is this a dagger which I see before me . . . Come, let me clutch thee. Shak.

See Colliery.

One who makes complaint. Eager complainants of the dispute. Collier.

uise; a cloack. "Under cover of the night." Macualay. A hendsome cover for imperfections. Collier.

rage. Not dispirited with my afflictions. Dryden. He has dispirited himself by a debauch. Collier.

en display; flash; glitter. [R.] A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.

all kings and parliaments since the Conquest; and if that won't do; challenge the crown. Collier. To do by. See under By. -- To do for. (a) To answer for; to serve as; to suit. (b) To put an end to; to ruin; to baffle completely; as, a goblet is done for when it is broken. [Colloq.] Some folks are happy and easy in m…

Dolphin fly (Zoöl.), the black, bean, or collier, Aphis (Aphis fable), destructive to beans. -- Dolphin striker (Naut.), a short vertical spar under the bowsprit.

Now used only colloquially.] Bacon. The trade of life can not be driven without partners. Collier.

fall short of a mark. [R.] Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of distance. Collier.

. A woman does not envy a man for his fighting courage, nor a man a woman for her beauty. Collier. Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. Rambler.

The refuse or meaner part of anything. The fag-end of business. Collier.

especially by for. All quality that is good for anything is founded originally in merit. Collier.