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A dish of stewed meat; an olio; an olla-podrida.

A favorite Spanish dish, consisting of a mixture of several kinds of meat chopped fine, and stewed with vegetables.

The stone pine (Pinus Cembra).

The Jesuit editors of the "Acta Sanctorum", or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.

upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes. Bollard timber (Naut.), a timber, also called a knighthead, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.

A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color.

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.

ogether, 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.

ng 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.

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