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Col*lud"er (?), n. One who conspires in a fraud.

||Col"lum (?), n.; pl. Colla (#). [L., neck.]

1. (Anat.) A neck or cervix. Dunglison.

2. (Bot.) Same as Collar. Gray.

Col*lu"sion (?), n. [L. collusio: cf. F. collusion. See Collude.] 1. A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning.

The foxe, maister of collusion. Spenser.

That they [miracles] be done publicly, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion. Atterbury.

By the ignorance of the merchants or dishonesty of the weavers, or the collusion of both, the ware was bad and the price excessive. Swift.

2. (Law) An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law. Bouvier. Abbott.

Syn. -- Collusion, Connivance. A person who is guilty of connivance intentionally overlooks, and thus sanctions what he was bound to prevent. A person who is guilty of collusion unites with others (playing into their hands) for fraudulent purposes.

Col*lu"sive (?), a. 1. Characterized by collusion; done or planned in collusion. "Collusive and sophistical arguings." J. Trapp. "Collusive divorces." Strype.

2. Acting in collusion. "Collusive parties." Burke.

-- Col*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- Col*lu"sive*ness, n.

Col*lu"so*ry (?), a. [L. collusorius.] Collusive.

Col"lu*to*ry (?), n. [L. colluere, collutum, to wash.] (Med.) A medicated wash for the mouth.

Col"ly (?), n. [From Coal.] The black grime or soot of coal. [Obs.] Burton.

Col"ly, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Collying.] To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime. [Archaic.]

Thou hast not collied thy face enough. B. Jonson.

Brief as the lighting in the collied night. Shak.

Col"ly (?), n. A kind of dog. See Collie.

Col"ly*bist (?), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; a small coin.] A money changer. [Obs.]

In the face of these guilty collybists. Bp. Hall.

Col*lyr"i*um (?), n.; pl. E. Collyriums (#), L. Collyria (#). [L., fr. Gr. &?;.] (Med.) An application to the eye, usually an eyewater.

||Col`o*co"lo (?), n. (Zo÷l.) A South American wild cat (Felis colocolo), of the size of the ocelot.

Col"ocynth (?), n. [L. colocynthis, Gr. &?;. Cf. Coloquintida.] (Med.) The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, or Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd.

Col`o*cyn"thin (?), n. [Cf. F. colocynthine.] (Chem.) The active medicinal principle of colocynth; a bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside.

Co*logne" (?), n. [Originally made in Cologne, the French name of K÷ln, a city in Germany.] A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne.

Co*logne" earth` (?). [From Cologne the city.] (Min.) An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.