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Colla [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Collaborateur [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Collaborator.

Collaboration [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of working together; united labor.

Collaborator [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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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Collagen [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Collagenous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Containing or resembling collagen.

Collapse [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

Collapse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Collapse [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Collapsed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Fallen together; closed.

Collapsed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Collapsion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A state of falling together; a state of vessels closed.

Collapsion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Collapse.

Collar [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

6. A collar of brawn, is the quantity bound up in one parcel.

Collar [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

Collar [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

6. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus.

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.

Collar [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To seize by the collar.

2. To put a collar on.

Collar bone Webster's Dictionary 1913

The clavicle.

Collar-bone [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The clavicle.

Collarage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A tax or fine laid for the collars of wine-drawing horses.

Collards [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Young cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort.

Collared [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Seized by the collar.

2. Having a collar on the neck.

Collared [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Wearing a collar.

2. 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.

3. Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t.

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Collatable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being collated.

Collate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To place in a benefice, as by a bishop.

2. If the bishop neglects to collate within six months, the right to do it devolves on the archbishop.

Collate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Literally, to bring or lay together. Hence,

2. To lay together and compare, by examining the points in which two or more things of a similar kind agree or disagree; applied particularly to manuscripts and books; as, to collate copies of the Hebrew Scriptures.

3. To confer or bestow a benefice on a clergyman, by a bishop who has it in his own gift or patronage; or more strictly, to present and institute a clergyman in a benefice, when the same person is both the ordinary and the patron; followed by to.

4. If the patron neglects to present, the bishop may collate his clerk to the church.

5. To bestow or confer; but now seldom used, except as in the second definition.

Collate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary.

Collate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement.

2. To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.

3. To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.

4. To bestow or confer.

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Exodus 22:26

If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,

Exodus 28:32

And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.

with an opening at its top in the center. Around the opening shall be a woven collar with an opening like that of a garment, so that it will not tear.

Exodus 39:23

And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.

with an opening in the center of the robe like that of a garment, with a collar around the opening so that it would not tear.

Joshua 6:5

And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

And when there is a long blast of the ram’s horn and you hear its sound, have all the people give a mighty shout. Then the wall of the city will collapse and all your people will charge straight into the city.”

Joshua 6:20

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.

So when the rams’ horns sounded, the people shouted. When they heard the blast of the horn, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. Then all the people charged straight into the city and captured it.

Judges 5:27

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

At her feet he collapsed, he fell, there he lay still; at her feet he collapsed, he fell; where he collapsed, there he fell dead.

Judges 7:13

And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.

And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”

Judges 8:26

And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks.

The weight of the gold earrings he had requested was 1,700 shekels, in addition to the crescent ornaments, the pendants, the purple garments of the kings of Midian, and the chains from the necks of their camels.

Judges 19:26

Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, till it was light.

Early that morning, the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, collapsed at the doorway, and lay there until it was light.

Judges 19:27

And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.

In the morning, when her master got up and opened the doors of the house to go out on his journey, there was his concubine, collapsed in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.

1 Samuel 4:19

And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.

Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.

1 Samuel 19:24

And he stript off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?

Then Saul stripped off his robes and also prophesied before Samuel. And he collapsed and lay naked all that day and night. That is why it is said, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

Job 1:19

And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

Job 30:18

By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.

Psalms 20:8

They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

They collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.

Psalms 133:2

It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

It is like fine oil on the head, running down on the beard, running down Aaron’s beard over the collar of his robes.

Proverbs 20:16

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

Proverbs 27:13

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

Isaiah 30:13

Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly— in an instant!

Jeremiah 6:15

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.