COLLECTING
COLLECTING, participle present tense Gathering; drawing together; assembling.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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COLLECTION
COLLECTION, noun1. The act of gathering, or assembling.2. The body formed by gathering; an assemblage, or assembly; a crowd; as a collection of men.3. A contribution; a sum coll...
COLLECTIVE
COLLECTIVE, adjective1. Formed by gathering; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated, or aggregated.2. Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.3. In grammar, express...
COLLECTIVELY
COLLECTIVELY, adverb In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly; in a state of combination; as the citizens of a state collectively considered.
COLLECTIVENESS
COLLECTIVENESS, noun A state of union; mass.
COLLECTOR
COLLECTOR, noun1. One who collects or gathers things which are scattered or separate.2. A compiler; one who gathers and puts together parts of books, or scattered pieces, in one...
COLLECTORSHIP
COLLECTORSHIP, noun1. The office of a collector of customs or taxes.2. The jurisdiction of a collector.
COLLEGATARY
COLLEGATARY, noun In the civil law, a person who has a legacy left to him in common with one or more other persons.
COLLEGE
COLLEGE, noun In its primary sense, a collection, or assembly. Hence,1. In a general sense, a collection, assemblage or society of men, invested with certain powers and rights, ...
COLLEGE-LIKE
COLLEGE-LIKE, noun Regulated after the manner of a college.
COLLEGIAL
COLLEGIAL, adjective Relating to a college; belonging to a college; having the properties of a college.
COLLEGIATE
COLLEGIATE, adjective1. Pertaining to a college; as collegiate studies.2. Containing a college; instituted after the manner of a college; as a collegiate society.3. A collegiate...
COLLET
COLLET, noun1. Among jewelers, the horizontal face or plane at the bottom of brilliants; or the part of a ring in which the stone is set.2. In glass-making, that part of glass v...
COLLETIC
COLLETIC, adjective Having the property of gluing; agglutinant.COLLETIC, noun An agglutinant.
COLLIDE
COLLIDE, verb intransitive To strike or dash against each other.
COLLIER
COLLIER, noun1. A digger of coal; one who works in a coal-mine.2. A coal-merchant or dealer in coal.3. A coasting vessel employed in the coal trade, or in transporting coal from...
COLLIERY
COLLIERY, noun1. The place where coal is dug.2. The coal trade.
COLLIFLOWER
COLLIFLOWER. [See Cauliflower.]
COLLIGATE
COLLIGATE, verb transitive To tie or bind together.The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows.
COLLIGATED
COLLIGATED, participle passive Tied or bound together.
COLLIGATING
COLLIGATING, participle present tense Binding together.
COLLIGATION
COLLIGATION, noun A binding together.
COLLIMATION
COLLIMATION, noun The act of aiming at a mark; aim; the act of leveling, or of directing the sight to a fixed object.
COLLINEATION
COLLINEATION, noun The act of aiming, or directing in a line to a fixed object.
COLLING
COLLING, noun An embrace; dalliance.
COLLIQUABLE
COLLIQUABLE, adjective That may be liquefied, or melted; liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid.
COLLIQUAMENT
COLLIQUAMENT, noun1. The substance formed by melting; that which is melted.2. Technically, the fetal part of an egg; the transparent fluid in an egg, containing the first rudime...