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

While there he gave himself to the study of the theological questions then in debate, and ended by becoming a Protestant, in consequence of which he in 1545 left his coll.

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

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

Johnson complained that no man could be properly inspired by the Pembroke "coll," or college beer, which was then commonly drunk by undergraduates, still guiltless of Rhine wines, and of collecting Chinese monsters.

From Oxford by Lang, Andrew