To embrace.
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To embrace.
See Collaborator.
The act of working together; united labor.
An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor.
Collaert
Encyclopedia Britannica
COLLAERT, Hans, a Flemιsn engraver, was the son of Adrian Collaert, a draughtsman and engraver of repute, and was born at Antwerp about 1545. After working some years in his father’s studio, he went to Rome to perfect himself in his art. His engravings after Rubens are very highly esteemed. He left many works; among the best may be mentioned a Life of Saint Francis, 16 prints; a Last Judgment, folio; Monilium, Bullarum, Inauriumque Artificiosissimae Icones, 10 prints, 1581; The Dead Christ in his Mother’s Lap; Marcus Curtius; Aloses Striking the Rock, and The Resurrection of Lazarus, after Lambert Lombard; the Fathers of the Desert; and Biblia Sacra and the History of the Church, after Rubens.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 6, p. 141
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Containing or resembling collagen.
To fall together, as the two sides of a vessel; to close by falling together; as, the fine canals or vessels of the body collapse in old age.
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.
3. Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.
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.
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.
Fallen together; closed.
of Collapse
A state of falling together; a state of vessels closed.
1. Something worn round the neck, as a ring of metal, or a chain. The knights of several orders wear a chain of gold, enameled, and sometimes set with ciphers or other devices, to which the badge of the order is appended.
2. The part of a garment which surrounds the neck. Job 30:18 .
3. A part of a harness for the neck of a horse or other beast, used in draught.
4. Among seamen, the upper part of a stay; also, a rope in form of a wreath to which a stay is confined.
5. To slip the collar is to escape or get free; to disentangle ones self from difficulty, labor, or engagement.
1. To seize by the collar
2. To put a collar on.
3. To collar beef or other meat, is to roll it up and bind it close with a string.
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. A ring or cincture.
3. A collar beam.
4. The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
5. An ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devices to designate their rank or order.
7. A colored ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
1. To seize by the collar.
2. To put a collar on.
Collar bone
Webster's Dictionary 1913
The clavicle.
The clavicle.
A tax or fine laid for the collars of wine-drawing horses.
1. Wearing a collar.
Capable of being collated.
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And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.
And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.
And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:
So Moses collected the redemption money from those in excess of the number redeemed by the Levites.
Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’S release.
Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.
So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.