Swift seem'd to wonder what he meant, But coldly said, Your servant, sir. Swift. 1. Want of heat; power of causing the sensation of cold. He relates the excessive coldness of the water they met with in summer in that icy region, where they were forced to winter. Boyle's Exp. Such was the discord, which did first disperse Form, order, beauty, through the universe; While dryness moisture, coldness heat resists, All that we have, and that we are, subsists. Denh. 2. Unconcern; frigidity of temper; want of zeal; negligence; disregard.. Divisions of religion are not only the farthest spread, because in religion all men presume themselves interested: but they are also, for the most part, hotlier prosecuted; forasmuch as coldness, which in other contentions, may be thought to proceed from moderation, is not in these so favourably construed. Hooker. If, upon reading admired passages in authors, he finds a coldness and indifference in his thoughts, he ought to conclude, that he himself wants the faculty of discovering them. Addison. It betrayed itself in a sort of indifference and carelessness in all her actions, and coldness to her best friends. Arbuthnot. 3. Coyness; want of kindness; want of passion. Unhappy youth! how will thy coldness raise Tempests and storms in his afflicted bosom! Addison's Cato. Let ev'ry tongue its various censures chuse, Absolve with coldness, or with spite accuse. Prior. 4. Chastity; exemption from vehement, desire. The silver stream her virgin coldness keeps, Fer ever murmurs, and for ever weeps. Pope. COLE. . s. [capl, Saxon.] A general name for all sorts of cabbage. CO'LESEED. n. s. [from cole and seed.] Cabbage seed. Where land is rank, it is not good to sow wheat after a fallow; but colested or barley, and then wheat. Mortimer. CO'LEWORT. n. s. [caplpynt, Sax.] A species of cabbage. The decoction of colezvorts is also commended to bathe them. Wiseman of an Erysipelas. She took the colewerts, which her husband got From his own ground (a small well-water'd spot); She stripp'd the stalks of all their leaves; the best She cull'd, and then with handy care she dress'd. Dryden. How turnips hide their swelling heads below: And how the closing colerrorts upwards grow. Gay. Co'LICK. n. s. [colicus, Latin.] It strictly is a disorder of the colon; but loosely, any disorder of the stomach or bowels that is attended with pain. There are four sorts: 1. A bilious click, which proceeds from an abund ance of acrimony or choler irritating the bowels, so as to occasion continual gripes, and generally with a looseness: and this is best managed with lenitíves and emollients. 2. A flatulent click, which is pain in the bowels from flatuses and wind, which distend them into unequal and unnatural capacities: and this is managed with carminatives and moderate openers. 3. An hysterical colick, which arises from disorders of the womb, and is communicated by consent of parts to the bowels; and is to be treated with the ardinary hystericks. 4. A nervous celick, which is from convulsive spasms and contortions of the guts themselves, from some disorders of the spi rits, or nervous fluid, in their component fibres; whereby their capacities are in many places streightened, and sometimes so as to occasion obstinate obstructions: this is best remedied by brisk catharticks, joined with opiates and emol lient diluters. There is also a species of this distemper which is commonly called the stone click, by consent of parts, from the irritation of the stone or gravel in the bladder or kidneys: and this is most commonly to be treated by nephriticks and oily diureticks, and is greatly assisted with the carminative turpentine clysters. Quincy. Colicks of infants proceed from acidity, and the air in the aliment expanding itself, while the aliment ferments. Arbuthnot. CO'LICK. adj. Affecting the bowels. Intestine stone and ulcer, colick pangs. Mil. To COLLAPSE. v. n. [collabor, collapsus, Latin.] To fall together; to close so as that one side touches the other. In consumptions and atrophy the liquids are exhausted, and the sides of the canals calleput; therefore the attrition is increased, and conse Arbuthnot en Dist quently the heat. COLLA'PSION. n. s. [from collapse.] 1. The act of closing or collapsing. 2. The state of vessels closed. COLLAR. n. s. [collare, Latin.] 1. A ring of metal put round the neck. 2. That's nothing, says the dog, but the fretting of my collar; nay, says the wolf, if there be collar in the case, I know better things than t♥ sell my liberty. L'Estrang Ten brace and more of grey hounds; Her waggon spokes made of long spinners legs 3. The part of the dress that surrounds 4. To slip the COLLAR. To get free; to escape; to disentangle himself from any engagement or difficulty. When, as the ape him heard so much to talk Of labour, that did from his liking baulk, He would have slipt the cellar handsomely. Hubberd Th 5. A COLLAR of Braun, is the quantity bound up in one parcel. COLLAR-BONE. n. s. [from collar and bene] The clavicle; the bones on each side of the neck. A page riding behind the coach fell down, bruised his face, and broke his right collar-bone. Wiseman's Surgery. To CO'LLAR. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To seize by the collar; to take by the throat. 2. To COLLAR beef, or other meat; to roll it up, and bind it hard and close with a string or collar. To COLLATE. v. a. [confero, collatum, Latin.] 1. To compare one thing of the same kind with another. Knowledge will be ever a wandering and indigested thing, if it be but a commixture of a few notions that are at hand and occur; and not excited from a sufficient number of instances," and those well collated. Bacon's Nat. Hist. They could not relinquish their Judaism, and embrace christianity, without considering, weighing, and collating both religions. South. To collate books; to examine if nothing be wanting. 3. To bestow; to confer. The significance of the sacrament disposes the spirit of the receiver to admit the grace of the spirit of God, there consigned, exhibited, and Taylor's Communicant. collated. 4. With to. To place in an ecclesiastical benefice. secration. He thrust out the invader, and collated Amsdorf to the benerice: Luther performed the conAtterbury. If a patron shall neglect to present unto a benefice, void above six months, the bishop may collate thereunto. Ayliffe. COLLATERAL. adj. [con and latus, Lat.] 1. Side to side. In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. Shak. Thus saying, from his radiant seat he rose Of high collateral glory. Milton's Par. Lost. 2. Running parallel. 3. Diffused on either side. But man by number is to manifest His single imperfection; and beget Like of his like, his image multiply'd In unity defective, which requires Collateral love and dearest amity. 4. In genealogy, those that stand in equal relation to some common ancestor. Milton. The estate and inheritance of a person dying intestate, is, by right of devolution, according to the civil law, given to such as are allied to him ex latere, commonly styled collaterals, if there be no ascendants or descendants surviving at the time of his death. Ayliffe's Parergon. 5. Not direct; not immediate. They shall hear and judge 'twixt you and me ; If by direct or by collateral hand They find us touch'd, we will our kingdom give To you in satisfaction. Shakspeare. 6. Concurrent, All the force of the motive lies within itself: it receives no collateral strength from external considerations. Atterbury. COLLATERALLY adv. [from collateral.] 1. Side by side. These pullies may be multiplied according to sundry different situations, not only when they are subordinate, but also when they are placed ellaterally. Wilkins. 2. Indirectly. By asserting the scripture to be the canon of our faith, I have created two enemies: the papists more directly, because they have kept the scripture from us; and the fanaticks more collaterally, because they have assumed what amounts to an infallibility in the private spirit. Dryden. 3. In collateral relation. COLLA'TION. n. s. [collatio, Lat.] 1. The act of conferring or bestowing; gift. Neither are we to give thanks alone for the first collation of these benefits, but also for their preservation. Ray on the Creation. 2. Comparison of one copy, or one thing of the same kind, with another. In the disquisition of truth, a ready fancy is of great use: provided that collati doth its office. Grew's Cosmologia. I return you your Milton, which, upon collation, I find to be revised and augmented in several places. Pope. 3. In law. Collation is the bestowing of a benefice, by the bishop that hath it in his own gift or patronage; and differs from institution in this, that institution into a benefice is performed by the bishop at the presentation of another who is patron, or hath the patron's right for the time. Corvell 2. One who presents to an ecclesiastical benefice. A mandatory cannot interrupt an ordinary collator, till a month is expired from the day of presentation. Ayliffe. Dict. To COLLA'UD. J. a. [collaudo, Lat.] To join in praising. COLLEAGUE. n. s. [collega, Lat.] A partner in office or employment. Anciently accented on the last syllable. Easy it might be seen that I intend Mercy colleage with justice, sending thee. Milton. The regents, upon demise of the crown, would keep the peace without colleagues. Swift. To COLLEAGUE, v. a. from the noun.] To unite with. Colleagued with this dream of his advantage, He hath not fail'd to pester us with message, Importing the surrender of those lands. Shak. To COLLECT. v. a. [colligo, collectum, Latin.] 1. To gather together; to bring into one place. 'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labour and industry daily collect. Watts. 2. To draw many units, or numbers, into one sum. Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion, each act won audience, ere the tongue Sometimes in height began, as no delay Of preface brooking through his zeal of right. Milton. COLLECT. n. s. [collecta, low Lat.] A short comprehensive prayer, used at the sacrament; any short prayer. Then let your devotion be humbly to say over proper collects. Taylor's Guide to Devotion. COLLECTA'NEOUS, adj. [collectaneus, Latin.] Gathered up together; collected; notes compiled from various books. COLLECTEDLY. adv. [from collected.] Gathered in one view at once. The whole evolution of ages from everlasting to everlasting is so collectedly and presentifickly More. represented to God. COLLECTIBLE. adj. [from collect.] That may be gathered from the premises by just consequence. Whether thereby be meant Euphrates, is not collectible from the following words. Brown. COLLECTION. n. s. [from collect.] 1. The act of gathering together. 2. An assemblage; the things gathered. No perjur'd knight desires to quit thy arms, Fairest collection of thy sex's charms. Prior. The gallery is hung with a collection of pictures. Addison. 3. The act of deducing consequences; ratiocination; discourse. This sense is now scarce in use. If once we descend unto probable collections, we are then in the territory where free and arbitrary determinations, the territory where human laws, take place. Hooker. Donne. Thou shalt not peep thro' lattices of eyes, Nor hear thro' labyrinths of ears, nor learn By circuit or collections to discern. 4. A corollary; a consectary deduced from premises; deduction; consequence. It should be a weak collection, if whereas we say, that when Christ had overcome the sharp ness of death, he then opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers; a thing in such sort affirmed with circumstances, were taken as in sinuating an opposite denial before that circumstance be accomplished. Hooker, 'This label Is so from sense in hardness, that I can When she, from sundry arts, one skill doth draw; Gath'ring, from divers flights, one act of war; From inany cases like, one rule of law: These her collections, not the senses are. Davi COLLECTITIOUS. adj. [collectitius, Lat.] Gathered up. COLLECTIVE. adj. [from collect; collec tif, French] 1. Gathered into one mass; aggregated; accumulative. A body collective, it containeth a huge mul titude. Hooker. The three forms of government differ only by the civil administration being in the hands of cae or two, called kings; in a senate, called the nobles; or in the people collective or representa tive, who may be called the commons. Swift. The difference between a compound and a cal lective idea is, that a compound idea unites things of a different kind; but a collective idea, things of the same. Watts' Legick 2. Employed in deducing consequences; argumentative. Antiquity left many falsities controulable not only by critical and collective reason, but conBros. trary observations. 3. [In grammar.] A collective noun is a word which expresses a multitude, though itself be singular: as, a company; Although we cannot be free from all sin cal lectively, in such sort that no part thereof shall be found in us; yet distributively all great actual of fences, as they offer themselves one by one, both may and ought to be by all means avoided. Hoer. Singly and apart many of them are subject to exception, yet collectively they make up a good moral evidence. Hake. The other part of the water was condensed at the surface of the earth, and sent forth collectively into standing springs and rivers. Woodward. COLLECTOR. n. s. [collector, Latin.] 1. A gatherer; he that collects scattered things together. 2. A compiler; one that gathers scattered pieces into one book. 3. The grandfather might be the first collecter of them into a body. Hale. Volumes without the collector's own reflections. The best English historian, when his stile grows antiquated, will be only considered as a tedious relater of facts, and perhaps consulted to furnish materials for some future collector. Suf A tax-gatherer; a man employed in levying duties or tributes. A great part of this treasure is now emberzled, lavished, and feasted away, by collectors, and orner officers. The commissions of the revenue are dis posed of, and the collectors are appointed by the commissioners. Swift. COLLE GATARY. n. s. [from con and legatum, a legacy, Lat.] In the civil law, a person to whom is left a legacy in common with one or more other persons. Chambers. COLLEGE. n. s. [collegium, Lat.] 1. A community; a number of persons living by some common rules. On barbed steeds they rode in proud array, Thick as the college of the bees in May. Dryd. 2. A society of men set apart for learning, or religion. He is return'd with his opinions, Shaks. Henry VIII. 3. The house in which the collegians re- Huldah the prophetess dwelt in Jerusalem in the college. Kings. 4. A college, in foreign universities, is a lecture read in publick. COLLEGIAL. adj. [from college.] Relating to a college; possessed by a college. COLLEGIAN. n. s. [from college.] An inhabitant of a college; a member of a college. COLLEGIATE. adj. [collegiatus, low Lat.] 1. Containing a college; instituted after the manner of a college. I wish that yourselves did well consider how opposite certain of your positions are unto the state of collegiate societies, whereon the two universities consist. Hooker, Preface. 2. A collegiate church was such as was built at a convenient distance from a cathedral church, wherein a number of presbyters were settled, and lived together in one congregation. Ayliffe. COLLEGIATE. n. s. [from college.] A member of a college; a man bred in a college; an university man. These are a kind of empiricks in poetry, who have got a receipt to please; and no collegiate like them, for purging the passions. Rymer. CO'LLET. n. s. [Fr. from collum, Latin, the neck.] 1. Anciently something that went about the neck; sometimes the neck. 2. That part of a ring in which the stone is set. 3. A term used by turners. To COLLIDE. v. a. [collido, Lat.] To strike against each other; to beat, to dash, to knock together. Scintillations are not the accension of air upon collision, but inflammable effiuencies from the bodies collided. Brown. CO'LLIER. n. s. [from coal.] 1. A digger of coal; one that works in the coal-pits. 2. A coal-merchant; a dealer in coal. I knew a nobleman a great grasier, a great timberman, a great collier, and a great landman. Bacon. 3. A ship that carries coal. CO'LLIFLOWER. n. s. [flos brasica; from A binding together. s. [colligatio, Lat.] These the midwife contriveth into a knot; whence that tortuosity or nodosity in the navel, occasioned by the colligation of vessels. Brown. COLLIMATION. n. s. [from collimo, Lat.] The act of aiming at a mark; aim. Dict. COLLINEATION. n. s. (collines, Latin.] The act of aiming. CO'LLIQUABLE. adj. [from colliquate.] To COLLIQUATE. v. a. [colliqueo, The fire melted the glass, that made a great shew, after what was colliquated had been removed from the fire. Boyle. The fat of the kidneys is apt to be colliquated, through a great heat from within, and an ardent colliquative fever, Harvey on Consumptions. To Co'LLIQUATE. v. n. To melt; to be dissolved. Ice will dissolve in fire, and colliquate in water or warm oils. Brown. COLLIQUA'TION. n. s. [colliquatio, Latin.] 1. The act of melting. nature. Glass may be made by the bare colliquation of the salt and earth remaining in the ashes of a burnt plant. Boyle. From them proceed rarefaction, colliquation, concoction, maturation, and most effects of Bacon's Natural History. 2. Such a temperament or disposition of the animal fluids as proceeds from a lax compages, and wherein they flow off through the secretory glands faster than they ought. Quincy. Any kind of universal diminution and colliquation of the body. Hargey on Consumptions. COLLIQUATIVE. adj. [from colliquate.] Melting; dissolvent. A colliquative fever is such as is attended with a diarrhea, or sweats, from too lax a contexture of the fluids. Quincy. It is a consequent of a burning colliquative tever, whereby the humours, fat, and flesh of the body are melted. Harvey. COLLIQUEFA'CTION. n. s. [colliquefacio, Latin.] The act of melting together; reduction to one mass by fiuxion in the fire. After the incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction, for the better discovering of the nature and consents and dissents of metals, it would be tried by incorporating of their dissolutions. Bacon's Physical Remains. COLLISION. n. s. [from collisio, Lat.] 1. The act of striking two bodies together. Or, by collision of two bodies, grind The air attrite to fire. Milton's Paradise Lost. The flint and the steel you may move apart as long as you please; but it is the hitting and collision of them that must make them strike fire. Bentley. 2. The state of being struck together; a clash. Then from the clashes between popes and kings, Debate, like sparks from flint's collision, springs. Denham. The devil sometimes borrowed fire from the altar to consume the votaries; and, by the mutual collision of well-meant zeal, set even orthodox christians in a flame. Decay of Piety. To COLLOCATE. v. a. [colloce, Lat.] To place; to station. If you desire to superinduce any virtue upon a person, take the creature in which that virtue is most eminent of that creature take the parts wherein that virtue is collocate. Bacon. COLLOCATION. n. s. [collocatio, Lat.] 1. The act of placing; disposition. 2. The state of being placed. In the collocation of the spirits in bodies, the collocation is equal or unequal; and, the spirits coacervate or diffused. Bacon. COLLOCUTION. n. s. [collocutio, Latin.] To COLLO'GUE, v. n. [probably from COʻLLOP. n. s. [it is derived by Minshew from coal and op, a rasher broiled upon a coal; a carbonade.] 1. A small slice of meat. Sweetbread and collops were with skewers King's Cookery. The lion is upon his death-bed: not an enemy that does not apply for a collop of him. 2. A piece of any animal. L'Estrange. 3. In burlesque language, a child. Look on me with your welkin eye, sweet villain, Shakspeare. Thou art a collop of my flesh, My earthly, by his heav'nly over-power'd, Milton, In retirement make frequent colloquies, or short discoursings, between God and thy own soul. Taylor. CO'LLOW, n. s. [more properly colly, from coal.] Collor is the word by which they denote black grime of burnt coals, or wood. Woodward, COLLUCTANCY, n. s. [colluctor, Lat.] A tendency to contest; opposition of nature. COLLUCTA'TION. n. s. [colluctatio, Lat.] Contest; struggle; contrariety; oppo. sition; spite. The therma, natural baths, or hot springs, do not owe their heat to any colluctation or ef fervescence of the minerals in them. Woodward, To COLLUDE. v. n. [colludo, Lat.] To conspire in a fraud; to act in concert; to play into the hand of each other. COLLUSION. n. s. [collusio, Lat.] Collusion is, in our common law, a deceitful agreement or compact between two or more, for the one part to bring an action against the other to some evil purpose; as to defraud a third of his right. Corvell By the ignorance of the merchants, or dis honesty of weavers, or the collusion of both, the ware was bad, and the price excessive. S COLLUSIVE. adj. [from collude.] Fraudulently concerted. COLLUSIVELY. adv. [from collusive.] In coal. Brief as the lightning in the collied night, COʻLMAR. n. s. [Fr.] A sort of pew. 2. The greatest and widest of all the in The colon begins where the ilium ends, in the cavity of the os ilium on the right side; from thence ascending by the kidney on the same side, it passes under the concave side of the liver, to which it is sometimes tied, as likewise to the gall-bladder, which tinges it yellow in that |