Definition of collection

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Collection (n.) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.

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Clan :: Clan (n.) A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald..
Caboodle :: Caboodle (n.) The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle.
Pencil :: Pencil (n.) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point..
Levy :: Levy (n.) The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution..
Oddity :: Oddity (n.) That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities..
Assortment :: Assortment (n.) A collection containing a variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of goods..
Hundred :: Hundred (n.) The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C..
Vill :: Vill (n.) A small collection of houses; a village.
Clutter :: Clutter (n.) A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter..
Aggregation :: Aggregation (n.) The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate..
Antirenter :: Antirenter (n.) One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York.
Glean :: Glean (n.) A collection made by gleaning.
Bullary :: Bullary (n.) A collection of papal bulls.
Contesseration :: Contesseration (n.) An assemblage; a collection; harmonious union.
Cone :: Cone (n.) Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form..
Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities..
Sutra :: Sutra (n.) A collection of such aphorisms.
Gob :: Gob (n.) A little mass or collection; a small quantity; a mouthful.
Dropsy :: Dropsy (n.) An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue..
Museum :: Museum (n.) A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art..
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