collier1 (kolyer)

[Also coalier, coallier, conformed to coal, but the vowel is properly short; earlier mod. E. colier, That five or six you sand colliers and ploughmen should contend during an hour with half that number of regular cavalry and infantry would now be thought a miracle. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., v. 21. A coal-merchant or dealer in coal. All maner of colyers that bryngeth colys to towne for to sille, smale or grete, that they bryng their sakkes of juste English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 425. mesure. IMG:content-0807.png:[blocks in formation] Patting her husband on the shoulder, she bade him sit down for a "hard-headed loon, that was aye bringing him sell and other folk into collie -shangies." Scott , Guy Manner ing, xxiv. colliflowert (kol'i-flou-er), n. An old spelling of cauliflower . coll i form (kol'i-fôrm), a. [L. collum, neck, + form a, shape.] In entom., having the form of a collar: applied to the pronotum when it is short, narrow, and closely applied to the mesothorax.