CPage 276
- English Word Collaboration Definition The act of working together; united labor.
- English Word Collaborator Definition An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor.
- English Word Collagen Definition 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.
- English Word Collagenous Definition Containing or resembling collagen.
- English Word Collapse Definition 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.
- English Word Collapse Definition 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.
- English Word Collapse Definition A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.
- English Word Collapse Definition A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
- English Word Collapse Definition Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.
- English Word Collapsed Definition of Collapse
- English Word Collapsing Definition of Collapse
- English Word Collapsion Definition Collapse.
- English Word Collar Definition 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.
- English Word Collar Definition A ring or cincture.
- English Word Collar Definition A collar beam.
- English Word Collar Definition The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
- English Word Collar Definition An ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devices to designate their rank or order.
- English Word Collar Definition A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus.
- English Word Collar Definition A colored ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
- English Word Collar Definition 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.
- English Word Collar Definition 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.
- English Word Collar Definition A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
- English Word Collar Definition To seize by the collar.
- English Word Collar Definition To put a collar on.
- English Word Collar bone Definition The clavicle.
- English Word Collards Definition Young cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort.
- English Word Collared Definition of Collar
- English Word Collared Definition Wearing a collar.
- English Word Collared Definition 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.
- English Word Collared Definition Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t.