Cold (n.) The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.
Cold (n.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.
Cold (v. i.) To become cold.
Cold-blooded (a.) Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.
Cold-blooded (a.) Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.
Cold-blooded (a.) Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country.
Coldfinch (n.) A British wagtail.
Cold-hearted (a.) Wanting passion or feeling; indifferent.
Coldish (a.) Somewhat cold; cool; chilly.
Coldly (adv.) In a cold manner; without warmth, animation, or feeling; with indifference; calmly.
Coldness (n.) The state or quality of being cold.
Cold-short (a.) Brittle when cold; as, cold-short iron.
Cold-shut (a.) Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting.
Cold-shut (n.) An imperfection caused by such insufficient welding.
Cole (n.) A plant of the Brassica or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of B. oleracea called rape and coleseed.
Co-legatee (n.) A joint legatee.
Colegoose (n.) See Coalgoose.
Colemanite (n.) A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California.
Colemouse (n.) See Coletit.
Coleopter (n.) One of the Coleoptera.
Coleoptera (n. pl.) An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillae) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils.
Coleopteral (a.) Alt. of Coleopterous
Coleopterous (a.) Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.
Coleopteran (n.) One of the order of Coleoptera.
Coleopterist (n.) One versed in the study of the Coleoptera.
Coleorhiza (n.) A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle.
Coleperch (n.) A kind of small black perch.
Colera (n.) Bile; choler.
Coleridgian (a.) Pertaining to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or to his poetry or metaphysics.
Coleseed (n.) The common rape or cole.
Coleslaw (n.) A salad made of sliced cabbage.
Co-lessee (n.) A partner in a lease taken.
Co-lessor (n.) A partner in giving a lease.
Colestaff (n.) See Colstaff.
Colet () Alt. of Collet
Collet () An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See Acolyte.
Coletit (n.) Alt. of Coaltit
Coaltit (n.) A small European titmouse (Parus ater), so named from its black color; -- called also coalmouse and colemouse.
Coleus (n.) A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves.
Colewort (n.) A variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head.
Colewort (n.) Any white cabbage before the head has become firm.
Colfox (n.) A crafty fox.
Colic (n.) A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera.
Colic (a.) Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels.
Colic (a.) Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries.
Colical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, colic.
Colicky (a.) Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder.
Colicroot (n.) A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.
Colin (n.) The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite.
Coliseum (n.) The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world.
Colitis (n.) An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis.
Coll (v. t.) To embrace.
Collaborateur (n.) See Collaborator.
Collaboration (n.) The act of working together; united labor.
Collaborator (n.) An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor.
Collagen (n.) 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 (a.) Containing or resembling collagen.
Collapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Collapse
Collapsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collapse
Collapse (v. i.) 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.
Collapse (v. i.) 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.
Collapse (n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.
Collapse (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
Collapse (n.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.
Collapsion (n.) Collapse.
Collar (n.) 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.
Collar (n.) A ring or cincture.
Collar (n.) A collar beam.
Collar (n.) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
Collar (n.) An ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devices to designate their rank or order.
Collar (n.) A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus.
Collar (n.) A colored ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
Collar (n.) 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.
Collar (n.) 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.
Collar (n.) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
Collared (imp. & p. p.) of Collar
Collaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collar
Collar (v. t.) To seize by the collar.
Collar (v. t.) To put a collar on.
Collar bone () The clavicle.
Collards (n. pl.) Young cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort.
Collared (a.) Wearing a collar.
Collared (a.) 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.
Collared (a.) Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t.
Collatable (a.) Capable of being collated.
Collated (imp. & p. p.) of Collate
Collating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collate
Collate (v. t.) To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement.
Collate (v. t.) To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.
Collate (v. t.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.
Collate (v. t.) To bestow or confer.
Collate (v. i.) To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary.
Collateral (a.) Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure.
Collateral (a.) Acting in an indirect way.
Collateral (a.) 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.
Collateral (a.) Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence.
Collateral (a.) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal.
Collateral (n.) A collateral relative.
Collateral (n.) Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security.
Collaterally (adv.) Side by side; by the side.