Colligate (a.) Bound together.
Colligation (n.) A binding together.
Colligation (n.) 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.
Collimated (imp. & p. p.) of Collimate
Collimating (p. p. & vb. n.) of Collimate
Collimate (v. t.) 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.
Collimation (n.) 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.
Collimator (n.) A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal.
Collimator (n.) A tube having a convex lens at one end and at the other a small opening or slit which is at the principal focus of the lens, used for producing a beam of parallel rays; also, a lens so used.
Collin (n.) A very pure form of gelatin.
Colline (n.) A small hill or mount.
Collineation (n.) The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object.
Colling (v. t.) An embrace; dalliance.
Collingly (adv.) With embraces.
Collingual (a.) Having, or pertaining to, the same language.
Colliquable (a.) Liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid.
Colliquament (n.) The first rudiments of an embryo in generation.
Colliquated (imp. & p. p.) of Colliquate
Colliquating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Colliquate
Colliquate (v. t. & i.) To change from solid to fluid; to make or become liquid; to melt.
Colliquation (n.) A melting together; the act of melting; fusion.
Colliquation (n.) A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages.
Colliquative (a.) Causing rapid waste or exhaustion; melting; as, colliquative sweats.
Colliquefaction (n.) A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.
Collish (n.) A tool to polish the edge of a sole.
Collision (n.) The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.
Collision (n.) A state of opposition; antagonism; interference.
Collisive (a.) Colliding; clashing.
Collitigant (a.) Disputing or wrangling.
Collitigant (n.) One who litigates or wrangles.
Collocate (a.) Set; placed.
Collocated (imp. & p. p.) of Collocate
Collocating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collocate
Collocate (v. t.) To set or place; to set; to station.
Collocation (n.) The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.
Collocution (n.) A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse.
Collocutor (n.) One of the speakers in a dialogue.
Collodion (n.) 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.
Collodionize (v. t.) To prepare or treat with collodion.
Collodiotype (n.) A picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype.
Collodium (n.) See Collodion.
Collogue (v. i.) To talk or confer secretly and confidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief.
Colloid (a.) Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.
Colloid (n.) 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.
Colloid (n.) A gelatinous substance found in colloid degeneration and colloid cancer.
Colloidal (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, colloids.
Colloidality (n.) The state or quality of being colloidal.
Collop (n.) A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh.
Collop (n.) A part or piece of anything; a portion.
Colloped (a.) Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops.
Collophore (n.) A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola.
Collophore (n.) An adhesive marginal organ of the Lucernariae.
Colloquial (a.) Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.
Colloquialism (n.) A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.
Colloquialize (v. t.) To make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one's style of writing.
Colloquist (n.) A speaker in a colloquy or dialogue.
Colloquies (pl. ) of Colloquy
Colloquy (n.) Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation.
Colloquy (n.) In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship.
Collow (n.) Soot; smut. See 1st Colly.
Colluctancy (n.) A struggling to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature.
Colluctation (n.) A struggling; a contention.
Colluded (imp. & p. p.) of Collude
Colluding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collude
Collude (v. i.) To have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in concert.
Colluder (n.) One who conspires in a fraud.
Colla (pl. ) of Collum
Collum (n.) A neck or cervix.
Collum (n.) Same as Collar.
Collusion (n.) A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning.
Collusion (n.) An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law.
Collusive (a.) Characterized by collusion; done or planned in collusion.
Collusive (a.) Acting in collusion.
Collusory (a.) Collusive.
Collutory (n.) A medicated wash for the mouth.
Colly (n.) The black grime or soot of coal.
Collied (imp. & p. p.) of Colly
Collying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Colly
Colly (v. t.) To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime.
Colly (n.) A kind of dog. See Collie.
Collybist (n.) A money changer.
Collyriums (pl. ) of Collyrium
Collyria (pl. ) of Collyrium
Collyrium (n.) An application to the eye, usually an eyewater.
Colocolo (n.) A South American wild cat (Felis colocolo), of the size of the ocelot.
Colocynth (n.) The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / 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.
Colocynthin (n.) The active medicinal principle of colocynth; a bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside.
Cologne (n.) A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne.
Cologne earth () An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.
Colombier (n.) A large size of paper for drawings. See under Paper.
Colombin (n.) See Calumbin.
Colombo (n.) See Calumba.
Colon (n.) That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion.]
Colon (n.) A point or character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction.
Colonel (n.) The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.
Colonelcy (n.) The office, rank, or commission of a colonel.
Colonelship (n.) Colonelcy.
Coloner (n.) A colonist.
Colonial (a.) Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.
Colonical (a.) Of or pertaining to husbandmen.