collop 
Sw. Tcalops, formerly kallops, kollops, slices of 
beef stewed, = G. Mops, a dish of meat made 
tender by beating; prob. of LG. origin: cf. 
D. klop, a knock, stroke, stamp (= G. klopf, a 
knock), < kloppen, knock, beat (= G. Mop/en, 
knock), related to kluppen = G. klaffen = Sw. 
klappa = E. clap 1 , q. v. Cf. E. dial, clop for 
clap. Otherwise < OF. coif, V. coup, a blow, 
stroke: see coup 1 .'] 1. A slice or lump of flesh; 
a piece of meat. 
And I sigge [say], bi my sonle I haue no salt bacon, 
>'e no cokeneyes, bi Crist, colopux to makt'ii. 
Piers Plowman (A), vii. 272. 
He covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh col- 
lops of fat on hi* flanks. Job xv. 27. 
God knows thou art a collop of my flesh. 
Sha/c., 1 Hen. VI., v. 4. 
Slices of this Kind of Meat [salted and dried] are at this 
Day called Collo^* in the North, hereas they are named 
.Steaks when cut from fresh ^eat. 
Bnu -ae' l'i>. Antlq. (1777), p. 332. 
Figuratively 2. A slice or piece of anything; 
anything in the shape of a collop. [Bare.] 
This, indeed, with the former, cut two good collops out 
of the crown land. Fuller. 
Clouds ... in flocky rosctt o hers in broad, many- 
folded collops. S. Jadil, Margaret, i. 14. 
Collop Monday, the day succeeding Quiminagesima Sun- 
day, and preceding Shrove Tuesday. Minced collops, 
minced beef; minced meat. [Scotch.] 
COlloquia, n. Plural of colloquium. 
colloquial (ko-16'kwi-al), a. [< L. colloquium, 
conversation (see colloquy), + -al.~\ 1. Pertain- 
ing to conversation ; conversational. 
Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, 
And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few. 
Cowper, Task, Iv. 400. 
His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the 
highest order. Macaulay, Samuel Johnson. 
2. Peculiar or appropriate to the language of 
common or familiar conversation; belonging 
to ordinary, every-day speech : often especially 
applied to common words and phrases which 
are not admissible in elegant or formal speech. 
The amusing exaggerations of Giraldus when he criti- 
cises the colloquial Latin of Hubert Walter. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 144. 
colloquialise, i: t. See colloquialize. 
colloquialism (ko-lo'kwi-al-izm), n. [< collo- 
quial + -ism.~\ A word or phrase peculiar to 
the language of common or familiar conversa- 
tion. = Syn. Slann, etc. Seecm2. 
COlloquiality (ko - 16 - kwi - al' i - ti ), n. [< collo- 
quial + -ity.~] The state of being colloquial. 
Worcester. [Rare.] 
colloquialize (ko-lo'kwi-al-iz), v. t. ; pret. and 
pp. colloquialized, ppr. colloquializing . [< col- 
loquial + -ize.~\ To make colloquial. Worces- 
ter. Also colloquialise. [Rare.] 
colloquially (ko-16'kwi-al-i ), adv. In a collo- 
quial or conversational manner; in colloquial 
language. 
Intent on writing colloquially and strictly suppressing 
excitement and indignation. Spectator, 1864. 
COlloquist (kol'o-kwist), n. [< colloquy + -ist.~] 
A speaker in a colloquy. 
The colloquists in this dialogue. Malone, Dryden. 
colloquium (ko-lo'kwi-um), n. ; pi. colloquia (-a). 
[L., a conversation: see colloquy.] 1. In law, 
that part of the complaint or declaration in an 
action for defamation which shows that the 
words complained of were spoken concerning 
the plaintiff. 2. A colloquy; a meeting for 
discussion. 
Writs were issued to London and the other towns prin- 
cipally concerned, directing the mayor and sheriffs to send 
to a colloquium at York two or three citizens with full 
power to treat on behalf of the community of the town. 
S. Dowell, Taxes in England, I. 87. 
colloquize (kol'o-kwiz), v. i. ; pret. and pp. col- 
loquized, ppr. colloqnizing. [< colloquy + -ize.~] 
To take part in a colloquy or conversation ; con- 
verse. Charlotte Bronte. 
colloquy (kol'o-kwi), . ; pi. colloquies (-kwiz). 
[< L. colloquium, < colloqui. conloqui, speak to- 
gether, < com-, together, + loqui, speak : see lo- 
cution. Cf. soliloquy."] A conversation; espe- 
cially, a conversation which is of the nature of a 
discussion or conference. 
In retirement make frequent 
colloquies or short discoursings 
between God and your own soul. 
Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, p. 24. 
Collosphaera (kol - 6 - sf e '- 
rji), n. [NL. (Miiller, 
1856), < Gr. n6Ma, glue, + 
oQaipa, ball.] The typical 
genus of radiolarians of 
the family Collosphceridce. 
C. polygona is an example. 
1106 
Collosphaeridse (kol-o-sfer'i-de), n. pi. [NL., 
< Cvllosphcera + -idee.'] A family of spumel- 
larians with the skeleton either consisting of 
simple reticulate spheres, or composed of two 
concentric reticulate spheres, severally inclos- 
ing the spherical, polyzoic, central capsules. 
collowt, v. and n. See colly 1 . 
ColloZOa (kol-o-zo'a), n.pl. [NL., pi. of Collo- 
zoum, q. v. ] A superfamily group of polycytta- 
rian radiolarians, containing those which have 
several or many nuclei : distinguished from Col- 
lida. 
Collozoidae (kol-6-zo'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Collo- 
znum + -idcv."] A family of spumellarians with 
skeleton entirely wanting and central capsules 
social, thickly embedded in a common gelati- 
nous body, typified by the genus Collozoum. 
Collozoum (kol-o-zo'um), n. [NL., < Gr. K<5/ua, 
glue, + C"", animal.] A genus of radiolarians, 
giving name to the Collozoa. 
Collucianist (ko-lu'shian- 
ist), n. [< LL. Collucianistat, 
pi., < L. com-, together, with, 
+ Lucianus (see def .) 4- -ista, 
E. -ist.'] One of the follow- 
ers of Lucian of Antioch, 
who taught doctrines similar 
to those afterward known as 
Somi Avion "hnf waQ cmVieo CoUozonm scrpcnti- 
oemi-Arian, out was suose- ,, highly magnified. 
quently reconciled to the 
church, and died as a martyr in the persecu- 
tion under Diocletian. 
Lucian's doctrine is known to have been precisely the 
same as that species of Arianism afterwards called Semi- 
Arianism ; but it is not on that account that I here trace 
the rise of Arianism to Lucian. . . . These men [Arius and 
others] actually appealed to him as their authority, and 
adopted from him the party designation of Collncianists. 
J. H. Neunnan, Arians of the Fourth Century, p. 7. 
colluctancyt, [< L. cnttuctan(t-}s, ppr. of 
colluctari, struggle : see colluctation, and cf . re- 
luctance.'] A struggling against something; 
resistance; opposition; contrariety. Bailey. 
colluctationt (kol-uk-ta'shon), n. [< L. colluc- 
tatio(n-), (.colluctari, conluciari, -py.*coUuctatus, 
struggle, < com-, together, + luctari, struggle: 
see reluct."] A struggling against or with some- 
thing, or a resisting ; contest; struggle; oppo- 
sition. 
And being weakened with colluctation of contrarie pas- 
sions, a Feaucr, taking that occasion and aduantage, ap- 
prehends him, and soone after kills him. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 359. 
Colluctation with old hags and hobgoblins. 
Dr. H. More, Antidote against Atheism, ii. 9. 
collude (ko-lud'), v. i.; pret. and pp. colluded, 
ppr. colluding. [= F. colluder = Sp. coludir 
(obs.) = Pg. colludir = It. colludere, < L. col- 
ludere, conludere, play together; in legal use, 
conspire in a fraud ; < com-, together, + ludere, 
play: see ludicrous, Indus.] To conspire in a 
fraud or deception; act in concert through a 
secret understanding; play into one another's 
hands. See collusion. 
If they let things take their course, they will be repre- 
sented as colluding with sedition. 
Burke, Affairs of Ireland. 
How is he to be punished or impeached, if he colludes 
with any of these banks to embezzle the public money? 
D. Webster, Speech, Senate, May 7th, 1834. 
colluder (ko-lu'der), n. One who conspires in 
a fraud; one who is guilty of collusion. 
Colluders yourselves, as violent to this law of God by 
your unmerciful binding, as the Pharisees by their un- 
bounded loosening ! Milton, Tetrachordon. 
collum (kol'um), .; pi. colla (-a). [L., = AS. 
heals, E. halse : see collar and halse 1 .] 1. In 
anat. and zool., the neck, in the most .general 
sense; the whole neck. [Little used, except 
in some anatomical names.] 2. The neck- 
like prolongation of some flask-shaped infuso- 
rians, or of the choanocytes of sponges, which 
ends in the ftagellum and is surrounded by the 
collar. 
The endoderm extends distally in a cylindrical neck or 
collum, which terminates in a long flagellum surrounded 
by a delicate protoplasmic frill or collar. 
Encyc. Brit., XXII. 418. 
3. In entom., the upper part or collar of the 
prothorax of a beetle, usually called the pro- 
notum. [Rare.] 4. In oot. : (o) Same as col- 
lar, 2 (6). (6) In mosses, the neck or tapering 
base of the capsule. collum obstipum, in pathol., 
wryneck. 
COllurio, COllyrio (ko-lu'-, kp-lir'i-6), . [NL. ; 
prop, colly f rio; < Gr. KoWivpiuv (occurring once 
with var. Kopv'XUwv), a bird of the thrush kind, 
perhaps the fieldfare.] 1. An old book-name 
collybi 
of the shrike. It was made the specific name 
of the red-backed shrike of Europe, Lanius or 
Enncoctonus collurio. Hence 2. [cop.] A 
generic name applied, with various extensions, 
to the group of shrikes of which Laniits excti- 
bitor is the type. Kaup, 1829, after Moeliring, 
17f>2. 
collusion (ko-lu'zhon), n. [= F. collusion = Sp. 
collision = Pg. collusao = It. collusions, < L. col- 
lusio(n-), < colludere, pp. collusus, collude : see 
collude.'} 1. Secret agreement for a fraudulent 
or harmful purpose ; a secret or crafty under- 
standing for unworthy purposes. 
A second character is that they [miracles] be done pub- 
licly, . . . that there may be no room to suspect artifice 
and collusion. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, III. xi. 
A collusion between the Delphic priests and the Alcmte- 
onides [was discovered]. J. Adams, Works, IV. 488. 
2. Specifically, in law, a secret understanding 
between two or more persons to act or proceed 
as if adversely or at variance with, or in ap- 
parent defiance of, one another's rights, in order 
to prejudice a third person or to obtain a reme- 
dy which could not as well be obtained by open 
concurrence. 
If a person designed to alien lands in mortmain, the re- 
ligious or ecclesiastical persons to whom he designed to 
alien them brought by collusion an action to recover the 
lands, and recovered them by default. 
B. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., ii. 
collusive (ko-lu'siv), a. [=Pg. It. collusivo, < 
L. collusus: see collusion and -we.] 1. Fraud- 
ulently concerted or secretly entered into be- 
tween two or more : as, a collusive arrangement. 
See collusion, 2. 
These collusive suits were held to be beyond the danger 
of the statutes. jR. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., ii. 
2. Acting in collusion. 
The ministers of justice have no opportunity to be col- 
lusive. L. Addison, Western Barbary. 
collusively (ko-lu'siv-H), adv. In a collusive 
manner; by collusion ; by secret agreement to 
defraud or injure. 
There can be no reasonable doubt that the dissenting 
judge was, like the plaintiff and the plaintiff's counsel, 
acting collumvely. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. 
collusiveness (ko-lu'siv-nes), n. The quality 
of being collusive. 
collusory (ko-lu'so-ri), a. [= F. collusoire = Sp. 
colusorio = Pg. collusorio, < LL. *collusorius (in 
adv. collusorie), < collusor, a colluder (L. a play- 
mate), < L. colludere, pp. collusus, collude: see 
collude.] Carrying out fraud or deceit by se- 
cret concert; containing collusion ; collusive. 
collntiont (ko-lu'shon), n. [< LL. collutio(n-), a 
washing, < L. colluere, pp. collutus, wash, rinse, 
< com-, together, + lucre, wash.] A wash or 
lotion. 
COllutorium (kol-u-to'ri-um), . ; pi. collutoria 
(-a). [NL., < L. collutus, pp. of colluere, con- 
luere, wash, rinse: see collution."] In med., a 
mouth-wash; a gargle. 
colluvies (ko-lu'vi-ez), n. [L., washings, sweep- 
ings, filth, < colluere, wash thoroughly : see col- 
lution."] 1. Filth; excrement; in med., spe- 
cifically, a discharge from an old ulcer. Dun- 
glison. 2f. Figuratively, a vile medley; a rab- 
ble. [Rare.] 
We have been reputed a colluvies of wild opinionists 
swarmed into a remote wilderness, to find elbow-room for 
our fanatic doctrines and practices. 
..V. Ward, Simple Cobler. 
COllyM, COllOWt (kol'i, -6), v. t. [< ME. "colyen, 
colien, var. colwen, colowen (verbal n. colwinge, 
colowinne), where w prob. represents an older y 
for i; < AS. as if *colian, make black as with 
coal, < col, coal : see coal, n.~] To make foul or 
dirty ; grime, as with the smut of coal ; blacken. 
Brief as the lightning in the collied night. 
Shak., M. N. D., i. 1. 
Poixle [F.], collowed, smeared, bleached, begrimed with 
soot or with the touch of a sooty skillet, etc. Cotgrave. 
Fie, fie, Club, go a' t' other side the way, thou collowest 
me and my raff. Middleton, Family of Love, iii. 3. 
Thou hast not collied thy face enough. 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, iv. 3. 
That youthful Virgin of five and forty with ... a shin- 
ing Face and colly'd eyebrows. 
Southern, Maid's Last Prayer, i. 
colly 1 !, collowt (kol'i, -6), n. [< co%i, callow, 
i:, ult. < AS. co?, coal.] The black grime or 
soot of coal or burned wood. 
Besmeared with soot, colly, etc. 
Burton, Auat. of Mel., p. 554. 
colly 2 , . See collie. 
collyba, . Plural of collybos. 
COllybi, . Plural of collybus. 
