collar.html - See: HOT UNDER THE COLLAR, ROMAN COLLAR, SAILOR COLLAR.

collar.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 the part of a shirt, dress, coat, etc., that goes round the neck, either upright or turned over.
2 a band of linen, lace, etc., completing the upper part of a costume.
3 a band of leather or other material put round an animal's (esp. a dog's) neck.
4 a restraining or connecting band, ring, or pipe in machinery.
5 a coloured marking resembling a collar round the neck of a bird or animal.
6 Brit. a piece of meat rolled up and tied.

--v.

tr.
1 seize (a person) by the collar or neck.
2 capture, apprehend.
3 colloq. accost.
4 sl. take, esp. illicitly.

collar-beam a horizontal beam connecting two rafters and forming with them an A-shaped roof-truss. collar-bone either of two bones joining the breastbone and the shoulder-blades. collared dove a dove, Streptopelia decaoto, having distinct neck-markings.

collared adj. (also in comb.). collarless adj. [ME f. AF coler, OF colier, f. L collare f. collum neck]

collar.html - See: HOT UNDER THE COLLAR, ROMAN COLLAR, SAILOR COLLAR.

collar.html - v.intr. (often foll. by with)
1 work jointly, esp. in a literary or artistic production.
2 cooperate traitorously with an enemy.

collaboration n. collaborationist n. & adj. collaborative adj. collaborator n. [L collaborare collaborat- (as COM-, laborare work)]

collar.html - n.
1 a form of art in which various materials (e.g. photographs, pieces of paper, matchsticks) are arranged and glued to a backing.
2 a work of art done in this way.
3 a collection of unrelated things.

collagist n. [F, = gluing]

collar.html - n.
a protein found in animal connective tissue, yielding gelatin on boiling. [F collagëne f. Gk kolla glue + -gëne = -GEN]