coll

Example Sentences

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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

Camb., where he was Senior Wrangler, and became a Fellow and Tutor of his coll.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)

In new affection next I strove    To coll an ash I saw, And he in trust received my love;    Till with my soft green claw I cramped and bound him as I wove .

From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas

Et culpam in facto, non scelus esse meo, coll.

From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Döderlein, Ludwig

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