adj. 1. of or designating work or workers in industry not requiring well-groomed appearance. [ Narrower terms: industrial ] white-collar [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers. [ Narrower terms: lower-class, low-class ]
Syn. -- propertyless, wage-earning, working-class. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. chryso`kolla gold solder; chryso`s gold + &unr_; glue. ] (Min.) A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. to work together with another toward a common goal, especially in an intellectual endeavor; as, four chemists collaborated on the synthesis of the compound; three authors collaborated in writing the book. [ PJC ]

2. to willingly cooperate with an enemy, especially an enemy nation occupying one's own country. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ F. ] See Collaborator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of working together; united labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the act of willingly cooperating with an enemy, especially an enemy nation occupying one's own country. [ PJC ]

n. someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force.
Syn. -- collaborator, quisling. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. accomplished by collaboration; cooperative; as, collaborative effort of industry and the universities. Opposed to competitive. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. collaborare to labor together; col- + laborare to labor: cf. F. collaborateur. ] 1. An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. one who willingly cooperates with an enemy, especially an enemy nation occupying one's own country. [ PJC ]

n. 1. any picture made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs, especially in unusual or surprising ways.
Syn. -- montage. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the technique of producing a work of art that is a collage{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

3. any composite object, whether abstract or concrete, created by assembling components of varied types. [ PJC ]

4. (Cinema) a film having scenes of different types or from different locations displayed in rapid succession without transitions. [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. ko`lla glue + -gen. ] (Physiol. Chem.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Containing or resembling collagen. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Collapsed p. pr. & vb. n. Collapsing ] [ L. collapsus, p. p. of collabi to collapse; col- + labi to fall, slide. See Lapse. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it. Maunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Capable of collapsing or being collapsed; as, a collapsible boat. [ Narrower terms: telescopic; tip-up ] Also See: folded. Antonym: noncollapsible.
Syn. -- collapsable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. collapsio. ] Collapse. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. coler, coller, OF. colier, F. collier, necklace, collar, fr. OF. col neck, F. cou, fr. L. collum; akin to AS. heals, G. & Goth. hals. Cf. Hals, n. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) (a) A ring or cincture. (b) A collar beam. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devices to designate their rank or order. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) (a) A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus. (b) A colored ring round the neck of a bird or mammal. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Mech.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Naut.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Mining) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

Collar beam (Arch.), a horizontal piece of timber connecting and tying together two opposite rafters; -- also, called simply collar. --
Collar of brawn, the quantity of brawn bound up in one parcel. [ Eng. ] Johnson. --
Collar day, a day of great ceremony at the English court, when persons, who are dignitaries of honorary orders, wear the collars of those orders. --
To slip the collar, to get free; to disentangle one's self from difficulty, labor, or engagement. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Collared p. pr. & vb. n. Collaring. ] 1. To seize by the collar. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put a collar on.

3. to arrest, as a wanted criminal. Same as put the collar on. [ PJC ]

To collar beef (or other meat), to roll it up, and bind it close with a string preparatory to cooking it. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Anat.) The clavicle, a bone linking the scapula and sternum. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a variety of kale (Brassica oleracea) having smooth leaves; a type of colewort. It is grown in the southern U. S. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. pl. [ Corrupted fr. colewort. ] 1. Same as collards{ 1 }. [ Colloq. Southern U. S. ]
Syn. -- collards. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. pl. [ Corrupted fr. colewort. ] 1. Young cabbage, used as “greens”; esp. the leaves of a kind of kale (Brassica oleracea acephala) cultivated for that purpose, the collard or colewort. [ Colloq. Southern U. S. ]
Syn. -- collard greens. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. A kind of kale (Brassica oleracea acephala) cultivated in the southern United States as a vegetable. [ PJC ]

a. 1. Wearing a collar. “Collared with gold.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of several species of lizards of the genus Crotaphytus and the family Iguanidae, of the central and western U.S. and northern Mexico, having long tails and usually bearing markings on the neck appearing like a collar of two black bands. RHUD [ PJC ]

{ ‖, n. [ F. collerette, dim. of collier. See Collar. ] A small collar; specif., a woman's collar of lace, fur, or other fancy material. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Capable of being collated. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Collated; p. pr. & vb. n. Collating. ] [ From Collation. ] 1. To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eccl.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To bestow or confer. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Ecl.) To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the bishop neglects to collate within six months, the right to do it devolves on the archbishop. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. collateralis; col- + lateralis lateral. See Lateral. ] 1. Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure. “Collateral light.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Acting in an indirect way. [ 1913 Webster ]

If by direct or by collateral hand
They find us touched, we will our kingdom give . . .
To you in satisfaction. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues. [ 1913 Webster ]

That he [ Attebury ] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, . . . is true. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet the attempt may give
Collateral interest to this homely tale. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Genealogy) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Lineal descendants proceed one from another in a direct line; collateral relations spring from a common ancestor, but from different branches of that common stirps or stock. Thus the children of brothers are collateral relations, having different fathers, but a common grandfather. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Collateral assurance, that which is made, over and above the deed itself. --
Collateral circulation (Med. & Physiol.), circulation established through indirect or subordinate branches when the supply through the main vessel is obstructed. --
Collateral issue. (Law) (a) An issue taken upon a matter aside from the merits of the case. (b) An issue raised by a criminal convict who pleads any matter allowed by law in bar of execution, as pardon, diversity of person, etc. (c) A point raised, on cross-examination, aside from the issue fixed by the pleadings, as to which the answer of the witness, when given, cannot subsequently be contradicted by the party asking the question. --
Collateral security, security for the performance of covenants, or the payment of money, besides the principal security. --
collateral damage, (Mil.) damage caused by a military operation, such as a bombing, to objects or persons not themselves the intended target of the attack. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. 1. A collateral relative. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Side by side; by the side. [ 1913 Webster ]

These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. [ 1913 Webster ]

The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In collateral relation; not lineally. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being collateral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. collacioun speech, conference, reflection, OF. collacion, F. collation, fr. L. collatio a bringing together, comparing, fr. collatum (used as the supine of conferre); col- + latium (used as the supine of ferre to bear), for tlatum. See Tolerate, v. t. ] 1. The act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Print.) The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of conferring or bestowing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Not by the collation of the king . . . but by the people. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A conference. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Eccl. Law) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Law) (a) The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity. (b) The report of the act made by the proper officers. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Scots Law) The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This also obtains in the civil law, and is found in the code of Louisiana. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Eccles.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

A collation of wine and sweetmeats. Whiston. [ 1913 Webster ]

Collation of seals (Old Law), a method of ascertaining the genuineness of a seal by comparing it with another known to be genuine. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To partake of a collation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

May 20, 1658, I . . . collationed in Spring Garden. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Print.) One who examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. collatitius. See Collation. ] Brought together; contributed; done by contributions. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. collativus brought together. ] Passing or held by collation; -- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] 1. One who collates manuscripts, books, etc. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl. Law) One who collates to a benefice. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who confers any benefit. [ Obs. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. collaudare; col- + laudare to praise. ] To join in praising. [ Obs. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decollated; p. pr. & vb. n. Decollating. ] [ L. decollatus, p. p. of decollare to behead; de- + collum neck. ] To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The decollated head of St. John the Baptist. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. decollatio: cf. F. décollation. ] 1. The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To furnish or surround with a collar. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. ichthyocolla, Gr. &unr_;; 'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + &unr_; glue: cf. F. ichthyocolle. ] Fish glue; isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds of certain fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. not able to be folded into a compact form. Opposite of collapsible. [ Narrower terms: nontelescopic, nontelescoping ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. not buttoned at the neck; -- of a shirt; as, dressed casually in shorts and an open-collared shirt. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Osteo- + Gr. &unr_; glue. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A kind of glue obtained from bones. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cellular calc tufa, which in some places forms incrustations on the stems of plants, -- formerly supposed to have the quality of uniting fractured bones. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. sarcocolla, from Gr. &unr_;; sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + &unr_; glue: cf. F. sarcocolle. ] A gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of Africa (Penaea), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ NL. taurocolla, fr. Gr. tayro`kolla; tay^ros a bull + ko`lla glue: cf. F. taurocolle. ] Glue made from a bull's hide. [ 1913 Webster ]