collegian 
of a college, particularly of a literary institu- 
tion so named; an inhabitant of a college; a 
student. 
He has hi.- warmth of sympathy with tin- fi 11. ..</,((,. 
ijiant. Iamb, To South,.). 
2. An inmate of a debtors' prison. Also colle- 
[V.\\K. slang.] 
II In-rumr ;i not unusual i-in Miustmii-i- for letten to he 
put under hisduiir lit ni^M i ii' l-'Miii; tialf-a i-rowii _ _ f f or 
tin- Kllthrr 'it UK' M;u -li:*l->M. " \\ilti tin- i onij.llmenta of 
tttOtftaf takinu li-iivr. /Ji'o*-/i. Lull, liorrit, vi. 
Collegiant (ko-le'ji-ant), . [< colleuium + 
-tinft.] One <>f a sect founded near Leyden, 
Holland, in 1619, the societies of which aro 
called mlli-i/r.i. | 1 h,. si-.-t .-prru.l rapidly in tin- Ni th.-r 
lands. an-i is .-lill maintained thrtv ;ui'l in Haliov.-r. in 
do, -trim- tllul prm-tirt- tile < 'olli'-iiUlts rrsi-mllk- tllr <>lla 
ken*, huvinu' im i-rt rd nor ur^':iiii/'-'l ministr) ; Imt thi-y 
lit-lii-Vi- in til. iii-ressltyof baptism, which tl'n-y udliiiiiis. 
ti-r hy inmuT--i"ii. 
collegiate ( ko-le 'ji-iit), a. and n. [= It. eollf- 
</iiiti>, a. and n., < LL). collcgiattu, only as a noun, 
one of a society, college, etc., < L. collegium, a 
society, college, etc.: see college.] I, a. 1. 
Pertaining to or of the nature of a college, or 
an organized body of men having certain com- 
mon pursuits or duties : as, collegiate societies. 
Hooker. See college, 1. 2. Pertaining to a col- 
lege within a university, or to a college which 
forms an independent institution for higher 
learning; furnished by or pursued in a college: 
as, collegiate life; collegiate education. See col- 
lege, 2. 
Arnold liiinsi-tf 1ms the academic bias. There is in him 
a .slight collet/late contemptuousuess and aloofness. 
The Century, XXVII. 929. 
3. Constituted afterthe manner of or connected 
with a college in any sense: as, collegiate mas- 
terships in a university. Milton. 
Nevertheless, the government of New-England was for 
having their students brought up in a more collegiate way 
of living. C. Mather, Mag. Chris., Int. to iv. 
4. Collected; combined; united. Bacon. [Bare.] 
Collegiate charge, in Sci itland, a charge or pastorship 
devolving on a minister as the colleague and successor of 
an emeritus pastor. Collegiate church, (a) In Eng- 
land, a church (hat lias a college or chapter, consisting of 
a dean, canons, and prebends, but has not a bishop's see. 
Of these some are of royal, others of ecclesiastical founda- 
tion ; and each is regulated, in matters of divine service, 
as a cathedral. Some of them were anciently abbeys, 
which have been secularized. 
To be collegiate, a church must have dally choir-service 
sung in it, support a dean and canons, and possess a chap- 
ter, as if it were a cathedral. 
Rock, Church of our Fathers, ii. 264. 
(6) In Scotland, a church or congregation the active pas- 
tor of which is the colleague and successor of the emeritus 
pastor, (c) In the United States, a corporate church hav- 
ing several houses of worship, with coordinate pastors. 
II. n. 1. A member of a college or univer- 
sity. 
Rigorous customs that forbid men to marry, ... as pren- 
tices, servants, collegiate*. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 686. 
2. Same as collegian, 2. 
Hi- beginnings were debauched, and his study and first 
practice in the gaol, . . . and there he ... busied him- 
self with the cases of his tettow-colleffiates. 
Roger North, Lord Oullford, i. 123. 
collegiatelyt (ko-le' ji-at-li), adv. In a collegi- 
ate manner ; in or within a college. 
Tis true, the University of Upsal in Sweden hath ordi- 
narily about seven or eight hundred students belonging to 
it. which do none of them live colleffiately, but board all 
of them here and there at private houses. 
C. Mather, Mag. Chris., Int. to iv. 
colleging (kol'ej-ing), n. [< college + -i)i</l.] 
Training and education in college. [Rare.] 
Though lightly prized the ribboned parchments three, 
Yet collegisse juvat, I am glad 
That here what colleying was mine I had. 
Loirell, Indian Summer Reverie. 
collegium (ko-le 'ji-um), n.; pi. collegia (-a). 
[ML., a special use of L. collegium, a college : 
see college.] A corporation; especially, an 
independent and self-governing ecclesiastical 
body uncontrolled by the state. See collegia!, 
3, and collegialism. 
col legno (kol la'nyo). [It. : col, eontr. of con 
il, with the ; legno, t. L. lignum, wood : see lig- 
neous.] Literally, with the wood : a direction 
in violin-playing to use the back of the bow 
instead of the hair. 
Collema (ko-le'mii), n. [NL., < LL. collema, < 
Or. K6U>i/ia, that which is glued together, < /co?.- 
Adiv, glue together, < KoUa, glue.] 1. A genus 
of lichens, typical of the family Collemei. 2. 
['. <:] A plant of this genus. 
Every possible stage from the typical nostoc to the typi- 
cal collema was seen repeatedly. 
H. C. Wood, Fresh-water Algso, p. 25. 
collemaceous (kol-e-ma'shius), a. [< Collema 
+ -aceous.] In lich'enology, resembling or hav- 
ing the characters of Collemei. Also collemeine. 
1103 
Oollembola (ko-lem'bo-W), . pi. [XL.. < (ir. 
m'/'/ ii, (jliif, + -uitting in place, a wl- 
tiriK, insertion, etc.: see embolie.] 1. An order 
of apterous ametabolous insects, containing 
tin- lowest or most general!/" 1 '! types of the 
true insects. It U represented by forms uch an Po- 
dura, which have 3 thoracic and (i abdominal segment* 
(the nut. -rii, r ai.dominal segment with a ventral auckrr 
mid tin- penultimate one with a pair of long setlfurin 
api'i -Ullages), and no wings, and which undent" i 
Different authors include in tin- unli-r 
exclude (nun It the thysanurous insect*, as Campodra and 
Lepfama. 
2. A suborder of the order Thyxaniira: re- 
stricted to the springtails proper, the 1'oduridte 
and Kiiiiiilliuridix. 
collembole (kol'em-bol), n. One of the Col- 
it nitinlir. 
collembolic (kol-em-bol'ik), . [< Collembola 
+ -ir.} Same as collembolous. 
collemboloos (ko-lem'bo-lns), a. [< CoUembola 
+ -<>us.] Of or pertaining to the Colkmbola ; 
being apterous and unietabolous, as an insect 
of the family Poduridte or order Thynanura. 
Collemei (ko-le'me-i), n. pi. [NL., < Collema.] 
A family of gymnocarpous lichens having a 
frondose or foliaceous thallus, and especially 
characterized by their gelatinous consistency 
when wet, and by their bluish-green gonidia 
(gonimia) ; jelly-lichens. 
collemeine (ko-le'me-in), a. [<G'oMema + -iite 1 .] 
Same as collemaceous. 
COllemoid (ko-le'moid), a. [< Collema + -oid.] 
Resembling the Collemei. 
collenchyma (ko-leng'ki-ma). n. [NL-> < Q r - 
<coXAa, glue, + lyxvua, an infusion.] In hot., 
a layer of modified parenchyma immediately 
beneath the epidermis, having the cells thick- 
ened at the angles by a pad-like mass which is 
capable of swelling greatly in water. It is 
found in the young stems, petioles, and leaf- 
veins of many dicotyledonous plants. 
collenchymatous (kol-eng-kim'a-tus), a. [< 
collenchyma(t-) + -ous.] 1. In hot., containing 
or resembling collenchyma. 2. In zool., hav- 
ing the character or quality of collenchyme; 
consisting of or containing collenchyme. 
collenchyme (ko-leng'kim), n. [< NL. collen- 
chyma (in another sense) : see collenchyma.] 
The tissue (of sponges) which is produced by 
collencytes. It is mesodermal, and in its commonest 
and simplest form consists of a clear, colorless gelatinous 
matrix in which the collencytes are embedded. 
CoUenchi/me does not originate through the transfor- 
mation of sarcenchyme, . . . for it precedes the hitter in 
development. Schulze . . . has compared collenchyme 
to the gelatinous tissue which forms the chief part of the 
umbrella of jellyfish. Sollat, Encyc. Brit., XXII. 419. 
collencytal (kol-en-si'tal), a. [< collencyte + 
-al.] Of or pertaining to a collencyte. 
collencyte (koren-slt), n. [Irreg. < Gr. x6Ma. 
glue, T iv, in, + icfa-of, a containing hollow.] 
One of the irregularly branching or stellate 
cells or connective-tissue corpuscles from which 
collenchyme arises, found embedded in the ma- 
trix of the latter in the mesoderm of sponges. 
collepixiet, n. See coUpixy. 
collerH, An obsolete spelling of collar. 
coller 2 t, n. An obsolete spelling of choler. 
collery-stick (kol'e-ri-stik), n. A missile 
weapon resembling the boomerang, used by 
the Colleries, or Thieves, a native race of south- 
ern India. Also cotteree-stick. 
collet 1 (kol'et), n. [= Q. kollet, < F. collet = It. 
colletto, < ML. colletus, a band or collar, dim. of 
L. collum, > P. col, the neck: see collar.] 1. A 
band or collar; specifically, a small collar or 
band worn by the inferior clergy of the Roman 
Catholic Church. 2. Among jewelers: (a) 
Same as culet. (6) The ring or flange within 
which a jewel or a group of jewels is set, as that 
part of a ring which holds the seal. The word 
is most common in connection with large com- 
positions of jewelers' work. 
The seal was set in a collet of gold. 
Sir T. Herbert, Memoirs, p. 101. 
3. In glass-manuf.. that part of a glass vessel 
which adheres to the pontee or iron instrument 
used in taking the substance from the melting- 
pot. 4. In mach., a small band of metal, as 
the ring which fastens the packing of a piston. 
5. In gun., that part of the muzzle of a cannon 
which lies between the astragal and the face 
of the piece. 
collet 1 (kol'et), p. t. [< collet*, n.] To set in 
or as in a collet. 
And in his foyle so lovely set, 
Falre coUited in gold. Arnim, 1609. 
collet 2 t (kol'et), n. [Like collard, a corruption 
of coletcort.] Same as colewort. 
colllculua 
COllCfr't, >' S.-.- mil t. 
colleter iko-l,.'t.'-n, . [NL., < (ir. a* if 
/IITIHI, < M<.II, glue together: see callttfrium.] 
In hot., one of the glandular hairs which i-ovr 
tin- leaf-buds of many plants; by extension, 
any glandular hair. 
on tin iiinUof various trees peculiar glandular hair* 
>i4t. Kncye. Brit., IV. 91. 
colleteria, . 1'lural of <////< riw. 
COlleterial (kol-e-te'ri-al), ii. [< mll'-trriiiM + 
-nl.\ IVrtaiiiini; lo nr 'if the nature of a col- 
leterium Colletertal gland, tin i-.iih-i.-riiim. 
Behind It (the spormatheca of tin d niiili i IK -kro:i- i 
two large, nunill'-d. lu\i\traMrtfriai ;il<in<l*, uhii I 
ably give rise to the substance <>f hi. h the egg-cue is 
Iti'slni, Anat. Invert., p. MO. 
colleterium (kol--t'ri-um), n. ; pi. colleteria 
(-ii). [NL., < (ir.'iiH if " iM'^^rf/piov, < ito^trrif, 
verbal adj. of m/.'/av, glue together, < 5X?ji, 
glue.] In :niil., a glandular organ secreting a 
visi-iil or ^liiiinoiiH substance by which the ova 
are glued together, as in various insects; a col- 
leterial gland. The ootheca or exK-case of the cockroach 
and other insects 1s prolwbly secreted by the colleterium, 
which consist* of several tubular glands In the abdomen 
a into the ovldiirt. 
Colletes (ko-le'tez), n. [NL. (Latreille, 1804), 
< (ir. n>/'Airrf/c, one who glues, < itoMav, glue 
together, < /,u//, glue.] A genus of solit: 
CftUttt tfmpacta. Crou thow natural tile. 1 
bees, of the family Andrenidtf, forming with 
Prosopis the group Obtusilingues. They usually 
burrow in the ground to the depth of several 
inches. 
colletic (ko-let'ik), a. and n. [< Gr. Ko?Jirrui6s, 
< Ko).^.rrrof, verbal adj. of itnfaav, glue together: 
see colleterium.] I. a. Having the property of 
gluing; agglutinant; colleterial. 
H. n. An agglutinant. 
colletin (kol'et-m), n. [< P. colletin, a jerkin, < 
collet, a collar: see colleft.] A piece of armor 
covering the neck and the upper part of the 
breast, and arranged to support the articulated 
pauldrons and also, to a certain extent, the 
plastron and back-piece. 
colletocystophore (ko-le-to-sis'to-for), n. [< 
(Jr. KOMqrfa, one who glues, + cystophore.] In 
zool., one of the peculiar marginal bodies char- 
acteristic of lueemarian hydrozoans, replacing 
or representing the tentacnlicysts of other hy- 
drozoans. Also colletocystophor. 
colley, ". See collie. 
collibert (kol'i-b6rt; F. pron. kol-e-bar'), n. 
[Also colibert; < OF. colibert, collibert, < ML. 
collibertus, usually in pi. colliberti, applied to 
serfs nominally freed, but still subject to cer- 
tain servile conditions (hence also called con- 
ditionales), < L. collibertus, conlibertus, a fellow- 
freedman, < com-, together, + libertus, a freed- 
man, < liber, free : see liberty. Cf. culvert?.] 
If. A spcman; a tenant holding in fee socage, 
but obliged, as long as he held, to render some 
customary service or due. 2. One of a de- 
spised race formerly existing in several parts 
of France, afterward chiefly found in Poitou, 
where they lived in boats on the rivers, but now 
nearly extinct : probably so called from the an- 
cient class of French serfs of that name. 
collicapital (kol-i-kap'i-tal), a. [< L. collum, 
neck, + caput (cajtit-), head, + -al.] Of or per- 
taining to the neck and head. Coues. [Rare.] 
colliculus (ko-lik'u-lus), n.: pi. colliculi (-11). 
[NL., < LL. colliculus, a little hill, dim. of L. 
roll in, a hill: see colline.] In mint., a small 
eminence; a little elevation Collicnlus bulbi. 
in anat., spongy tissue surronnding the urethra as it enters 
the bulb. Colliculus nervl opticl, in anat. : (a) The 
thalamus optima. (*) The papilla of the optic nerve. 
Colliculus semlnalis. Same as critta urethra (which 
see, under critta). 
