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

Mór báis mór baile: Great folly, great madness, Mór coll ceille mór mire: Great ruin of sense, great insanity, Olais airchenn teicht dóecaib: Since thou hast set out for death, Beith fó étoil maic Maire.:

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

The coll of rope, on which Captain Lecky and Mabelle were seated, was completely floated by the sea.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport

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

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