The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite.

a genus of birds including the New World quail and the bobwhites.

The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world.

An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis.

To embrace.

to work together with another toward a common goal, especially in an intellectual endeavor; as, four chemists collaborated on the synthesis of the compound; three authors collaborated in writing the book.

See Collaborator.

The act of working together; united labor.

someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force.

accomplished by collaboration; cooperative; as, collaborative effort of industry and the universities. Opposed to competitive.

An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor.

any picture made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs, especially in unusual or surprising ways.

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.

A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.

Capable of collapsing or being collapsed; as, a collapsible boat.

Collapse.

To seize by the collar.

a variety of kale (Brassica oleracea) having smooth leaves; a type of colewort. It is grown in the southern U. S.

Same as collards{1}.

Young cabbage, used as /greens/; esp. the leaves of a kind of kale (Brassica oleracea acephala) cultivated for that purpose, the collard or colewort.

Wearing a collar.

any of several species of lizards of the genus Crotaphytus and the family Iguanidae, of the central and western U.S. and northern Mexico, having long tails and usually bearing markings on the neck appearing like a collar of two black bands.

A small collar; specif., a woman's collar of lace, fur, or other fancy material.

Capable of being collated.

To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary.

A collateral relative.

Side by side; by the side.

The state of being collateral.

To partake of a collation.

One who examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc.

Brought together; contributed; done by contributions.

Passing or held by collation; -- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person.

One who collates manuscripts, books, etc.

To join in praising.

To unite or associate with another or with others.

Partnership in office.

A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.

Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.

Gathered together.

Composedly; coolly.

A collected state of the mind; self-possession.

Capable of being collected.

The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

Of or pertaining to collecting.

A collective noun or name.

In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.

A state of union; mass.

to bring under collective control; to organize for operation by the principles of collectivism; -- especially of farms and industrial enterprises. Same as collectivize.

The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism.

An advocate of collectivism.

Relating to, characteristic of, or advocating, collectivism.

Quality or state of being collective.

to bring under collective control; to organize for operation by the principles of collectivism; -- especially of farms and industrial enterprises.

brought under collective ownership and operating under collectivist principles; -- used especially of organizations operating under the ownership by the state.

One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins.

The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.

The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.

A girl; a maiden.

A joint legatee.

Collegiate.

A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college.

A member of a college.

The division of Thysanura which includes Podura, and allied forms.

A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.

A small collar or neckband.

Of or pertaining to the colleterium of insects.

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

Agglutinant. An agglutinant.

See Collie.

To strike or dash against.

a particle accelerator in which two separate beams of particles (usually of opposite charge) are circulated in opposite directions and directed so as to collide head on. This technique allows the production of collisions of higher energy than would be possible with a single beam produced by the same device.

One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids.

a particle accelerator in which two separate beams of particles (usually of opposite charge) are circulated in opposite directions and directed so as to collide head on; -- called also colliding-beam accelerator and collider.

The Scotch shepherd dog. There are two breeds, the rough-haired and smooth-haired. It is remarkable for its intelligence, displayed especially in caring for flocks.

Darkened. See Colly, v. t.

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.

See Cauliflower.

Bound together.

A binding together.

To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.

The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument.

A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal.

A very pure form of gelatin.

A small hill or mount.

The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object.

An embrace; dalliance.

With embraces.

Having, or pertaining to, the same language.

Liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid.

The first rudiments of an embryo in generation.

To change from solid to fluid; to make or become liquid; to melt.

A melting together; the act of melting; fusion.

Causing rapid waste or exhaustion; melting; as, colliquative sweats.

A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.

A tool to polish the edge of a sole.

The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.

Colliding; clashing.

Disputing or wrangling. One who litigates or wrangles.

To set or place; to set; to station.

The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.

A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse.

One of the speakers in a dialogue.

A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a coating for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography.

To prepare or treat with collodion.

A picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype.

See Collodion.

To talk or confer secretly and confidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief.

A substance (as albumin, gum, gelatin, etc.) which is of a gelatinous rather than a crystalline nature, and which diffuses itself through animal membranes or vegetable parchment more slowly than crystalloids do; -- opposed to crystalloid.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, colloids.

The state or quality of being colloidal.

A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh.

Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops.

A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola. An adhesive marginal organ of the Lucernariae.

The Latinic plural of colloquium.

Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.

A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.

To make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one's style of writing.

A speaker in a colloquy or dialogue.