CPage 419
- English Word Collectorate Definition The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
- English Word Collectorship Definition The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.
- English Word Collegatary Definition A joint legatee.
- English Word College Definition 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.
- English Word College Definition 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.
- English Word College Definition A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.
- English Word College Definition Fig.: A community.
- English Word Collegial Definition Collegiate.
- English Word Collegian Definition A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college.
- English Word Collegiate Definition Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society.
- English Word Collegiate Definition A member of a college.
- English Word Collembola Definition The division of Thysanura which includes Podura, and allied forms.
- English Word Collenchyma Definition A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.
- English Word Collet Definition An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See Acolyte.
- English Word Collet Definition A small collar or neckband.
- English Word Collet Definition 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.
- English Word Collet Definition The part of a ring containing the bezel in which the stone is set.
- English Word Collet Definition The flat table at the base of a brilliant. See Illust. of Brilliant.
- English Word Colleterial Definition Of or pertaining to the colleterium of insects.
- English Word Colleterium Definition An organ of female insects, containing a cement to unite the ejected ova.