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

Pastorals 1709, Essay on Criticism 1711, Rape of the Lock 1714, Windsor Forest and Temple of Fame 1713, translation of Iliad 1715-20, Odyssey 1725-26, coll.

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

"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

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

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