Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A dialectal variant of
cold . - See
col- . - To embrace; caress by embracing the neck.
- To insnare.
- noun An abbreviation of college
- noun of collegiate.
- noun An act of embracing; an embrace, especially about the neck.
- To cut off; clip, as the hair of the head; poll.
- To cut; cut short; lop; prune.
- To cut obliquely.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To embrace.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
hug orembrace .
Etymologies
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'This delicate criss-crossing. title coll-ibilles Tan's liveiv command of contemporar' v America and ancient China with all the style and inventiveness of the best of the magical realists. '
the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995
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This appendage is, in fact, how Collembola were named, by combining the Greek words "coll," or glue, and "embol," meaning wedge.
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This appendage is, in fact, how Collembola were named, by combining the Greek words "coll," or glue, and "embol," meaning wedge.
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General Motors has been suffering in the economic shutdown in our country and the President gave a rousing speech to a crowd of blue coll
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General Motors has been suffering in the economic shutdown in our country and the President gave a rousing speech to a crowd of blue coll
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General Motors has been suffering in the economic shutdown in our country and the President gave a rousing speech to a crowd of blue coll
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General Motors has been suffering in the economic shutdown in our country and the President gave a rousing speech to a crowd of blue coll
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Video of the Dallas Cowboys training facility coll ...
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General Motors has been suffering in the economic shutdown in our country and the President gave a rousing speech to a crowd of blue coll
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General Motors has been suffering in the economic shutdown in our country and the President gave a rousing speech to a crowd of blue coll
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