coll

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First they "fertilized" nitrogen-fixing bacteria with a DNA "sex factor" from the common intestinal bacteria Escherichia coll, a non-nitrogen-fixing species.

From Time Magazine Archive

In "The Witch," by Middleton—     "When hundred leagues in aire we feast and sing,     Daunce, kysse, and coll, use everything."

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

"You couldn't expect her to throw her arms round 'ee, an' to kiss and to coll 'ee all at once."

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas

I was not content with platter licking, which now appeareth to me a mighty pleasant calling but e'en I must become a broker and die sus. per coll.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Robin made his testament Upon a coll of hay; And by cam' a greedy gled And snapt him a' away.

From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Ford, Robert