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

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

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)