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.

A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.

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.

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.

A conference treating a specific topic, at which experts and specialists present their views and discuss and analyze the information presented; the emphasis on conversation among the experts and with the audience distinguishes a colloquium from the more generic conference.

Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation.

A photomechanical print made directly from a hardened film of gelatin or other colloid; also, the process of making such prints. According to one method, the film is sensitized with potassium dichromate and exposed to light under a reversed negative. After the dichromate has been washed out, the film is soaked in glycerin and water. As this treatment causes swelling in those parts of the film which have been acted on by light, a plate results from which impressions can be taken with prepared ink. The albertype, phototype, and heliotype are collotypes.

Soot; smut. See 1st Colly.

A struggling to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature.

A struggling; a contention.

To have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in concert.

One who conspires in a fraud.

A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning.

Characterized by collusion; done or planned in collusion.

Collusive.

A medicated wash for the mouth.

A collection or gathering, as of pus, or rubbish, or odds and ends.

A kind of dog. See Collie.

A money changer.

An application to the eye, usually an eyewater.

A defect or malformation; esp., a fissure of the iris supposed to be a persistent embryonic cleft.

a small genus of perennial tuberous herbs of the arum family, of tropical Asia and the Pacific islands, including the taro (Colocasia esculente).

A South American wild cat (Felis colocolo), of the size of the ocelot.

The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus colocynthis, or Cucumis colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd.

The active medicinal principle of colocynth; a bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside.

A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne.

A large size of paper for drawings. See under Paper.

See Calumbin.

See Calumba.

That part of the large intestines which extends from the c/cum to the rectum. [See Illust. of Digestion.]

The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.

The office, rank, or commission of a colonel.

Colonelcy.

A colonist.

Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.

The state or quality of, or the relationship involved in, being colonial.

a believer in or advocate of colonialism{3}.

of or pertaining to the colon.

Of or pertaining to husbandmen.

A member or inhabitant of a colony.

See Colitis.