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8. Not sensitive; not acute.

Smell this business with a sense as cold As is a dead man's nose. Shak.

9. Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.

10. (Paint.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.

Cold abscess. See under Abscess. -- Cold blast See under Blast, n., 2. -- Cold blood. See under Blood, n., 8. -- Cold chill, an ague fit. Wright. -- Cold chisel, a chisel of peculiar strength and hardness, for cutting cold metal. Weale. -- Cold cream. See under Cream. -- Cold slaw. See Cole slaw. -- In cold blood, without excitement or passion; deliberately.

He was slain in cold blood after the fight was over. Sir W. Scott.

To give one the cold shoulder, to treat one with neglect.

Syn. -- Gelid; bleak; frigid; chill; indifferent; unconcerned; passionless; reserved; unfeeling; stoical.

Cold, n. 1. The relative absence of heat or warmth.

2. The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.

When she saw her lord prepared to part, A deadly cold ran shivering to her heart. Dryden.

3. (Med.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.

Cold sore (Med.), a vesicular eruption appearing about the mouth as the result of a cold, or in the course of any disease attended with fever. -- To leave one out in the cold, to overlook or neglect him. [Colloq.]

Cold, v. i. To become cold. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Cold"-blood`ed (?), a. 1. Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.

2. Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.

3. Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country.

Cold"finch` (?), n. (Zo÷l.) A British wagtail.

Cold"-heart`ed (?), a. Wanting passion or feeling; indifferent.

-- Cold"-heart`ed*ness, n.

Cold"ish (?), a. Somewhat cold; cool; chilly.

Cold"ly, adv. In a cold manner; without warmth, animation, or feeling; with indifference; calmly.

Withdraw unto some private place, And reason coldly of your grievances. Shak.

Cold"ness, n. The state or quality of being cold.

Cold"-short` (?), a. Brittle when cold; as, cold-short iron.

Cold"-shut` (?), a. (Metal.) Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting. -- n. An imperfection caused by such insufficient welding.

Cole (?), n. [OE. col, caul, AS. cawl, cawel, fr. L. caulis, the stalk or stem of a plant, esp. a cabbage stalk, cabbage, akin to Gr. &?;. Cf. Cauliflower, Kale.] (Bot.) A plant of the Brassica or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of B. oleracea called rape and coleseed.

Co-leg`a*tee" (?), n. A joint legatee.

Cole"goose` (?), n. (Zo÷l.) See Coalgoose.

Cole"man*ite (?), n. [From W.T. Coleman of San Francisco.] (Min.) A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California.

Cole"mouse` (?), n. (Zo÷l.) See Coletit.

Co`le*op"ter (?), n. (Zo÷l.) One of the Coleoptera.

||Co`le*op"te*ra (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; sheath-winged; &?; sheath + &?; wing.] (Zo÷l.) An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillŠ) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils.

{ Co`le*op"ter*al (?), Co`le*op"ter*ous (?) } a. [Gr. &?;.] (Zo÷l.) Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.

Co`le*op"ter*an (?), n. (Zo÷l.) One of the order of Coleoptera.

Co`le*op"ter*ist, n. One versed in the study of the Coleoptera.

||Co`le*o*rhi"za (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; sheath + &?; root.] A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle. Gray.

Cole"perch` (?), n. (Zo÷l.) A kind of small black perch.

Col"e*ra (?), n. [L. cholera. See Choler.] Bile; choler. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Cole*ridg"i*an (?), a. Pertaining to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or to his poetry or metaphysics.

Cole"seed` (?), n. The common rape or cole.

Cole"slaw` (?), n. [D. kool slaa cabbage salad.] A salad made of sliced cabbage.

Co`-les*see" (?), n. A partner in a lease taken.

Co`-les*sor" (?), n. A partner in giving a lease.

Cole"staff` (?), n. See Colstaff.

{ Col"et (?), Col"let }[Corrupted fr. acolyte.] An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See Acolyte.

{ Cole"tit` or Coal"tit (?), } n. (Zo÷l.) A small European titmouse (Parus ater), so named from its black color; -- called also coalmouse and colemouse.

||Co"le*us (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a sheath; -- referring to the manner in which the stamens are united.] (Bot.) A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves.

Cole"wort` (?), n. [AS. cawlwyrt; cawl cole + wyrt wort. Cf. Collards.] 1. A variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head.

2. Any white cabbage before the head has become firm.

Col"fox` (?), n. A crafty fox. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Col"ic (?), n. [F. colique, fr. L. colicus sick with the colic, GR. &?;, fr. &?;, &?;, the colon. The disease is so named from its being seated in or near the colon. See Colon.] (Med.) A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera.

Hepatic colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a gallstone from the liver or gall bladder through the bile duct. -- Intestinal colic, or Ordinary colic, pain due to distention of the intestines by gas. -- Lead colic, Painter's colic, a violent form of intestinal colic, associated with obstinate constipation, produced by chronic lead poisoning. -- Renal colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a calculus from the kidney through the ureter. -- Wind colic. See Intestinal colic, above.

Col"ic, a. 1. Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels. Milton.

2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries.

Col"ic*al (?), a. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, colic. Swift.

Col"ick*y (?), a. Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder.

Col"ic*root` (?), n. A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.

Col"in (?), n. [F. colin; prop. a dim. of Colas, contr. fr. Nicolas Nicholas.] (Zo÷l.) The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite.

Col`i*se"um (?), n. [NL. (cf. It. coliseo, colosseo), fr. L. colosseus colossal, fr. colossus a colossus. See Colossus, and cf. Colosseum.] The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world. [Written also Colosseum.]

||Co*li"tis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; + -itis.] (Med.) An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis.

Coll (?), v. t. [OF. coler, fr. L. collum neck.] To embrace. [Obs.] "They coll and kiss him." Latimer.

||Col*la`bo*ra*teur" (?), n. [F.] See Collaborator.

Col*lab`o*ra"tion (?), n. The act of working together; united labor.

Col*lab"o*ra`tor (?), n. [L. collaborare to labor together; col- + laborare to labor: cf. F. collaborateur.] An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor.

Col"la*gen (?), n. [Gr. ko`lla glue + -gen.] (Physiol. Chem.) 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.

Col*lag"e*nous (?), a. (Physiol.) Containing or resembling collagen.

Col*lapse" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Collapsed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Collapsing] [L. collapsus, p. p. of collabi to collapse; col- + labi to fall, slide. See Lapse.] 1. To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, 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.

2. To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance.

Col*lapse" (?), n. 1. A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.

2. A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown. [Colloq.]

3. (Med.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.

Col*lap"sion (?), n. [L. collapsio.] Collapse. [R.] Johnson.

Col"lar (?), n. [OE. coler, coller, OF. colier, F. collier, necklace, collar, fr. OF. col neck, F. cou, fr. L. collum; akin to AS. heals, G. & Goth. hals. Cf. Hals, n.] 1. Something 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.

2. (Arch.) (a) A ring or cincture. (b) A collar beam.

3. (Bot.) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem. Gray.

4. An ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devices to designate their rank or order.

5. (Zo÷l.) (a) A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus. (b) A colored ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.

6. (Mech.) A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for restraining motion within given limits, or for holding something to its place, or for hiding an opening around an object; as, a collar on a shaft, used to prevent endwise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where it enters a wall. The flanges of a piston and the gland of a stuffing box are sometimes called collars.

7. (Naut.) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.

8. (Mining) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft. Raymond.

Collar beam (Arch.), a horizontal piece of timber connecting and tying together two opposite rafters; -- also, called simply collar. -- Collar of brawn, the quantity of brawn bound up in one parcel. [Eng.] Johnson. -- Collar day, a day of great ceremony at the English court, when persons, who are dignitaries of honorary orders, wear the collars of those orders. -- To slip the collar, to get free; to disentangle one's self from difficulty, labor, or engagement. Spenser.

Col"lar, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collared (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Collaring.] 1. To seize by the collar.

2. To put a collar on.

To collar beef (or other meat), to roll it up, and bind it close with a string preparatory to cooking it.

Col"lar bone` (?). (Anat.) The clavicle.

Col"lards (?), n. pl. [Corrupted fr. colewort.] Young cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort. [Colloq. Souther U. S.]

Col"lared (?), a. 1. Wearing a collar. "Collared with gold." Chaucer.

2. (Her.) Wearing a collar; -- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins.

3. Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t.

Col*lat"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being collated. Coleridge.

Col*late" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collated; p. pr. & vb. n. Collating.] [From Collation.] 1. To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement.

I must collage it, word, with the original Hebrew. Coleridge.

2. To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.

3. (Eccl.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.

4. To bestow or confer. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Col*late", v. i. (Ecl.) To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary.

If the bishop neglets to collate within six months, the right to do it devolves on the archbishop. Encyc. Brit.

Col*lat"er*al (?), a. [LL. collateralis; col- + lateralis lateral. See Lateral.] 1. Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure. "Collateral light." Shak.

2. Acting in an indirect way.

If by direct or by collateral hand They find us touched, we will our kingdom give . . . To you in satisfaction. Shak.

3. Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues.

That he [Attebury] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, . . . is true. Macaulay.

4. Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence.

Yet the attempt may give Collateral interest to this homely tale. Wordsworth.

5. (Genealogy) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal.

&fist; Lineal descendants proceed one from another in a direct line; collateral relations spring from a common ancestor, but from different branches of that common stirps or stock. Thus the children of brothers are collateral relations, having different fathers, but a common grandfather. Blackstone.

Collateral assurance, that which is made, over and above the deed itself. -- Collateral circulation (Med. & Physiol.), circulation established through indirect or subordinate branches when the supply through the main vessel is obstructed. -- 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. -- Collateral security, security for the performance of covenants, or the payment of money, besides the principal security,

Col*lat"er*al (?), n. 1. A collateral relative. Ayliffe.

2. Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security.

Col*lat"er*al*ly, adv. 1. Side by side; by the side.

These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins.

2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly.

The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor.

3. In collateral relation; not lineally.

Col*lat"er*al*ness, n. The state of being collateral.

Col*la"tion (?), 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 Tolerate, 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.

2. (Print.) The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding.

3. The act of conferring or bestowing. [Obs.]

Not by the collation of the king . . . but by the people. Bacon.

4. A conference. [Obs.] Chaucer.

5. (Eccl. Law) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.

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.

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.

&fist; This also obtains in the civil law, and is found in the code of Louisiana. Bouvier.

8. (Eccles.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.

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.

A collation of wine and sweetmeats. Whiston.

Collation of seals (Old Law), a method of ascertaining the genuinendss of a$seal by'compariog it with another known to be genuine. Bouvier.

Col*la"tion, v. i. To partake of a collation. [Obs.]

May 20, 1658, I . . . collationed in Spring Garden. Evelyn.

Col*la"tion*er (?), 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.]

Col`la*ti"tious (?), a. [L. collatitius. See Collation.] Brought together; contributed; done by contributions. [Obs.] Bailey.

Col*la"tive (?), a. [L. collativus brought together. ] Passing or held by collation; -- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person.

Col*la"tor (?), n. [L.] 1. One who collates manuscripts, books, etc. Addison.

2. (Eccl. Law) One who collates to a benefice.

3. One who confers any benefit. [Obs.] Feltham.

Col*laud" (?), v. t. [L. collaudare; col- + laudare to praise.] To join in praising. [Obs.] Howell.

Col"league (k&obreve;l"lēg), n. [F. collŔgue, L. collega one chosen at the same time with another, a partner in office; col- + legare to send or choose as deputy. See Legate.] 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.

Col*league" (k&obreve;l*lēg"), v. t. & i. To unite or associate with another or with others. [R.] Shak.

Col"league*ship, n. Partnership in office. Milton.

Col*lect" (?), 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 Legend, and cf. Coil, v. t., Cull, v. t.] 1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

A band of men Collected choicely from each country. Shak.

'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. Watts.

2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.

3. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises. [Archaic.] Shak.

Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected. Locke.

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.

Col*lect", v. i. 1. To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.

2. To infer; to conclude. [Archaic]

Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons. South.

Col"lect, n. [LL. collecta, fr. L. collecta a collection in money; an assemblage, fr. collerige: cf. F. collecte. See Collect, v. t.] A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.

The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse. Macaulay.

||Col`lec*ta"ne*a (?), n. pl. [Neut. pl. from L. collectaneus collected, fr. colligere. See Collect, v. t.] Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.

Col*lect"ed (?), a. 1. Gathered together.

2. Self-possessed; calm; composed.

Col*lect"ed*ly, adv. Composedly; coolly.

Col*lect"ed*ness, n. A collected state of the mind; self-possession.

Col*lect"i*ble (?), a. Capable of being collected.

Col*lec"tion (?), n. [L. collectio: cf. F. collection.] 1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

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.

3. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. [Obs.]

We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. Milton.

4. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. [Eng.]

Syn. -- Gathering; assembly; assemblage; group; crowd; congregation; mass; heap; compilation.

Col*lec"tion*al (-al), a. Of or pertaining to collecting.

The first twenty-five [years] must have been wasted for collectional purposes. H. A. Merewether.

Col*lect"ive (?), a. [L. collectivus: cf. F. collectif.] 1. Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation. Bp. Hoadley.

2. Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring. [Obs.] "Critical and collective reason." Sir T. Browne.

3. (Gram.) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc.

4. Tending to collect; forming a collection.

Local is his throne . . . to fix a point, A central point, collective of his sons. Young.

5. Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.

Collective fruit (Bot.), that which is formed from a mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like; -- called also multiple fruit. Gray.

Col*lect"ive, n. (Gram.) A collective noun or name.

Col*lect"ive*ly, adv. In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.

Col*lect"ive*ness, n. A state of union; mass.

Col*lect"iv*ism (?), 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.

Col*lect"iv*ist, n. [Cf. F. collectiviste.] An advocate of collectivism. -- a. Relating to, or characteristic of, collectivism.

Col*lect"or (?), 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.

I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb.

2. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.

Volumes without the collector's own reflections. Addison.

3. (Com.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.

A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. Sir W. Temple.

4. One authorized to collect debts.

5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. Todd.

Col*lect"or*ate (?), n. The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.

Col*lect"or*ship, n. The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.

Col*leg"a*ta*ry (?), n. [L. collegetarius. See Legatary.] (Law) A joint legatee.

Col"lege (?), n. [F. collŔge, L. collegium, fr. collega colleague. See Colleague.] 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.

The college of the cardinals. Shak.