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Coloq. Collateral assurance , that which is made, over and above the deed itself. -- Coloq. Collateral circulation (Med. & Physiol.), circulation established through indirect or subordinate branches when the supply through the main vessel is obstructed. -- Coloq. Collateral issue . (Law) (a) An issue taken upon a matter aside from the merits of the case. (b) An issue raised by a criminal convict who pleads any matter allowed by law in bar of execution, as pardon, diversity of person, etc. (c) A point raised, on cross-examination, aside from the issue fixed by the pleadings, as to which the answer of the witness, when given, cannot subsequently be contradicted by the party asking the question. -- Coloq. Collateral security , security for the performance of covenants, or the payment of money, besides the principal security. -- Coloq. collateral damage , (Mil.) damage caused by a military operation, such as a bombing, to objects or persons not themselves the intended target of the attack.
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Collateral (?), n. 1. A collateral relative. Ayliffe.
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2. Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security.
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Collaterally, adv. 1. Side by side; by the side.
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These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins.
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2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly.
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The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor.
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3. In collateral relation; not lineally.
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Collateralness, n. The state of being collateral.
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Collation (?), n. [OE. collacioun speech, conference, reflection, OF. collacion, F. collation, fr. L. collatio a bringing together, comparing, fr. collatum (used as the supine of conferre); col- + latium (used as the supine of ferre to bear), for tlatum. See , v. t.] 1. The act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general. Pope.
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2. (Print.) The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding.
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3. The act of conferring or bestowing. [Obs.]
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Not by the collation of the king . . . but by the people. Bacon.
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4. A conference. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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5. (Eccl. Law) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
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6. (Law) (a) The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity. (b) The report of the act made by the proper officers.
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7. (Scots Law) The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
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☞ This also obtains in the civil law, and is found in the code of Louisiana. Bouvier.
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8. (Eccles.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.
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9. A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries.
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A collation of wine and sweetmeats. Whiston.
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Coloq. Collation of seals (Old Law), a method of ascertaining the genuineness of a seal by comparing it with another known to be genuine. Bouvier.
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Collation, v. i. To partake of a collation. [Obs.]
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May 20, 1658, I . . . collationed in Spring Garden. Evelyn.
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Collationer (?), n. (Print.) One who examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc. [Eng.]
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Collatitious (?), a. [L. collatitius. See .] Brought together; contributed; done by contributions. [Obs.] Bailey.
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Collative (?), a. [L. collativus brought together. ] Passing or held by collation; -- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person.
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Collator (?), n. [L.] 1. One who collates manuscripts, books, etc. Addison.
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2. (Eccl. Law) One who collates to a benefice.
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3. One who confers any benefit. [Obs.] Feltham.
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Collaud (?), v. t. [L. collaudare; col- + laudare to praise.] To join in praising. [Obs.] Howell.
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Colleague (kŏllēg), n. [F. collègue, L. collega one chosen at the same time with another, a partner in office; col- + legare to send or choose as deputy. See .] A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures.

Syn. -- Helper; assistant; coadjutor; ally; associate; companion; confederate.
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Colleague (kŏllēg), v. t. & i. To unite or associate with another or with others. [R.] Shak.
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Colleagueship, n. Partnership in office. Milton.
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Collect (kŏllĕkt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collected; p. pr. & vb. n. Collecting.] [L. collecrus, p. p. of collerige to bind together; col- + legere to gather: cf. OF. collecter. See , and cf. , v. t., , v. t.] 1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
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A band of men
Collected choicely from each country. Shak.
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'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. Watts.
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2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
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3. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises. [Archaic.] Shak.
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Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected. Locke.
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Coloq. To collect one's self , to recover from surprise, embarrassment, or fear; to regain self-control.

Syn. -- To gather; assemble; congregate; muster; accumulate; garner; aggregate; amass; infer; deduce.
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Collect, v. i. 1. To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
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2. To infer; to conclude. [Archaic]
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Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. South.
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Collect, n. [LL. collecta, fr. L. collecta a collection in money; an assemblage, fr. collerige: cf. F. collecte. See , v. t.] A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.
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The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse. Macaulay.
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Collectanea (?), n. pl. [Neut. pl. from L. collectaneus collected, fr. colligere. See , v. t.] Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.
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Collected (?), a. 1. Gathered together.
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2. Self-possessed; calm; composed.
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Collectedly, adv. Composedly; coolly.
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Collectedness, n. A collected state of the mind; self-possession.
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Collectible (?), a. Capable of being collected.
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Collection (?), n. [L. collectio: cf. F. collection.] 1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
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2. That which is collected; as: (a) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. “A collection of letters.” Macaulay. (b) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings. “The collection for the saints.” 1 Cor. xvi. 1 (c) (Usually in pl.) That which is obtained in payment of demands. (d) An accumulation of any substance. “Collections of moisture.” Whewell. “A purulent collection.” Dunglison.
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3. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. [Obs.]
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We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. Milton.
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4. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. [Eng.]

Syn. -- Gathering; assembly; assemblage; group; crowd; congregation; mass; heap; compilation.
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Collectional (-al), a. Of or pertaining to collecting.
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The first twenty-five [years] must have been wasted for collectional purposes. H. A. Merewether.
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Collective (?), a. [L. collectivus: cf. F. collectif.] 1. Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the body of a nation. Bp. Hoadley.
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2. Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring. [Obs.] “Critical and collective reason.” Sir T. Browne.
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3. (Gram.) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc.
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4. Tending to collect; forming a collection.
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Local is his throne . . . to fix a point,
A central point, collective of his sons. Young.
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5. Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.
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Coloq. Collective fruit (Bot.), that which is formed from a mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like; -- called also multiple fruit. Gray.
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Collective, n. (Gram.) A collective noun or name.
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Collectively, adv. In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
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Collectiveness, n. A state of union; mass.
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Collectivism (?), n. [Cf. F. collectivisme.] (Polit. Econ.) The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
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Collectivist, n. [Cf. F. collectiviste.] An advocate of collectivism.
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Collectivist, collectivistic a. 1. Relating to, characteristic of, or advocating, collectivism.
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2. operating under collectivist principles. [Narrower terms: socialistic (vs. capitalistic), socialist; communistic]
Syn. -- collectivized, state-controlled.
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collectivise v. t. to bring under collective control; to organize for operation by the principles of collectivism; -- especially of farms and industrial enterprises. Same as . [Brit.]
Syn. -- collectivize.
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Collectivity (?), n. 1. Quality or state of being collective.
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2. The collective sum, aggregate, or mass of anything; specif., the people as a body; the state.

The proposition to give work by the collectivity is supposed to be in contravention of the sacred principle of monopolistic competition. W. D. Howells.
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3. (Polit. Econ.) Collectivism.
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collectivize v. t. to bring under collective control; to organize for operation by the principles of collectivism; -- especially of farms and industrial enterprises.
Syn. -- collectivise.
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collectivized a. brought under collective ownership and operating under collectivist principles; -- used especially of organizations operating under the ownership by the state. [Narrower terms: socialistic (vs. capitalistic), socialist; communistic]
Syn. -- collective, collectivised, state-controlled.
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Collector (?), n. [LL. collector one who collects: cf. F. collecteur.] 1. 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.
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I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb.
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2. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
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Volumes without the collector's own reflections. Addison.
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3. (Com.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.
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A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. Sir W. Temple.
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4. One authorized to collect debts.
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5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. Todd.
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Collectorate (?), n. The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
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Collectorship, n. The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.
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Colleen (?), n. [Ir. cailin.] A girl; a maiden. [Anglo-Irish]

Of all the colleens in the land
Sweet Mollie is the daisy. The Century.
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Collegatary (?), n. [L. collegetarius. See .] (Law) A joint legatee.
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College (?), n. [F. collège, L. collegium, fr. collega colleague. See .] 1. 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.
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The college of the cardinals. Shak.
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Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this. Jer. Taylor.
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2. A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.
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☞ In France and some other parts of continental Europe, college is used to include schools occupied with rudimentary studies, and receiving children as pupils.
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3. A building, or number of buildings, used by a college. “The gate of Trinity College.” Macaulay.
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4. Fig.: A community. [R.]
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Thick as the college of the bees in May. Dryden.
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Coloq. College of justice , a term applied in Scotland to the supreme civil courts and their principal officers. -- Coloq. The sacred college , the college or cardinals at Rome.
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Collegial (?), n. [LL. collegialis.] Collegiate. [R.]
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Collegian (?), n. A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college.
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Collegiate (?), a. [L. collegiatus.] Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. Johnson.
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Coloq. Collegiate church . (a) A church which, although not a bishop's seat, resembles a cathedral in having a college, or chapter of canons (and, in the Church of England, a dean), as Westminster Abbey. (b) An association of churches, possessing common revenues and administered under the joint pastorate of several ministers; as, the Reformed (Dutch) Collegiate Church of New York.
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Collegiate, n. A member of a college. Burton.
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Collembola (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. kolla glue + 'embolon wedge, peg; -- so called from their having collophores.] (Zoöl.) The division of Thysanura which includes Podura, and allied forms.
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Collenchyma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. kolla glue + � an infusion. Formed like parenchyma.] (Bot.) A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.
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Collet (?), n. [F. collet, dim. fr. L. collum neck. See .] 1. A small collar or neckband. Foxe.
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2. (Mech.) A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.
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3. (Jewelry) (a) The part of a ring containing the bezel in which the stone is set. (b) The flat table at the base of a brilliant. See Illust. of .
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How full the collet with his jewel is! Cowley.
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Colleterial (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the colleterium of insects. R. Owen.
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Colleterium (?), n. [NL. See .] (Zoöl.) An organ of female insects, containing a cement to unite the ejected ova.
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Colletic (?), a. [L. colleticus suitable for gluing, Gr. �, fr. � to glue, kolla glue.] Agglutinant. -- n. An agglutinant.
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Colley (?), n. See .
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Collide (?), v. i. [L. collidere, collisum; col- + laedere to strike. See .] To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.
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Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate. Tyndall.
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No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding. Carlyle.
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Collide, v. t. To strike or dash against. [Obs.]
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Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided. Sir T. Browne.
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collider n. (Physics) 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.
Syn. -- particle collider; colliding-beam accelerator; colliding-beam machine. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

Collidine (?), n. [Gr. kolla glue.] (Chem.) 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.
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colliding-beam machine n. (Physics) 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. This technique allows the production of collisions of higher energy than would be possible with a single beam produced by the same device.
Syn. -- particle collider; colliding-beam accelerator; collider. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

Collie (kŏll�), n. [Gael. cuilean whelp, puppy, dog.] (Zoöl.) 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. [Written also colly, colley.]
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Collied (?), p. & a. Darkened. See , v. t.
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Collier (?), n. [OE. colier. See .] 1. One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.
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2. A vessel employed in the coal trade.
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Colliery (?), n.; pl. Collieries (#). [Cf. , .] 1. The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.
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2. The coal trade. [Obs.] Johnson.
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Colliflower (?), n. See .
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Colligate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Colligated; p. pr. & vb. n. Colligating.] [L. colligatus, p. p. of colligare to collect; co- + ligare to bind.] 1. To tie or bind together.
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The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows. Nicholson.
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2. (Logic) To bring together by colligation; to sum up in a single proposition.
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He had discovered and colligated a multitude of the most wonderful . . . phenomena. Tundall.
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Colligate, a. Bound together.
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Colligation (?), n. [L. colligatio.] 1. A binding together. Sir T. Browne.
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2. (Logic) That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse. “The colligation of facts.” Whewell.
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Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation. J. S. Mill.
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Collimate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collimated; p. p. & vb. n. Collimating.] [See .] (Physics & Astron.) 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.
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