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A very pure form of gelatin.

A small hill or mount. [Obs.] And watered park, full of fine collines and ponds. Evelyn.

The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. [R.] Johnson.

An embrace; dalliance. [Obs.] Halliwell.

With embraces. [Obs.] Gascoigne.

Having, or pertaining to, the same language.

Beheading. [R.] By a speedy dethroning and decolling of the king. Parliamentary History (1648).

See Semiglutin.

Situated between hills; -- applied especially to valleys lying between volcanic cones.

e. A giant statue . . . Pushed by a wild and artless race, From off wide, ambitious base. Collins.

A woman's girdle; a cestus. [R.] Collins.

Set or covered with cottages. Even humble Harting's cottaged vale. Collins.

; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous. "Creamy bowis." Collins. "Lines of creamy spray." Tennyson. "Your creamy words but cozen." Beau & Fl.

d a crib. Ld. Lytton. Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib. Wilkie Collins.

designs; to plan. Design for, to intend to go to. [Obs.] "From this city she designed for Collin [Cologne]." Evelyn.

doth distrust that other. Udall. Of all afraid, Distrusting all, a wise, suspicious maid. Collins.

Inclined to drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy. [R.] M. Collins.

To engird. [R.] Collins.

alive; not worn out, lost, or spent, as money, etc. [Irish] "While I am to the fore." W. Collins. "How many captains in the regiment had two thousand pounds to the fore" Thackeray.

as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout. Hook him, my poor dear, . . . at any sacrifice. W. Collins.