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collection

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Collection occurs when a horse carries more weight on the hind legs than the front legs . The horse draws its body together so that it becomes like a giant spring whose stored energy can be reclaimed for fighting or running from a predator. The largest ...

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n. several things grouped together or considered as a whole [syn: aggregation , accumulation , assemblage ] a publication containing a variety of works [syn: compendium ] request for a sum of money; "an appeal to raise money for starving children" [syn: ...

Usage examples of collection.

A large collection of Acadian documents, from the archives of Paris, is in my possession.

I have also examined the Acadian collections made for the government of Canada and for that of Massachusetts.

How long would it be, Adams wondered, before America had such collections.

His large library included a fine collection of Aldine editions and Greek and Latin MSS.

To an ameba, this was easily the most exciting photograph in the collection.

Within two years he put him on the Ammonites, a big collection having been received from Europe at that time.

She had swooped into Pottery Barn one afternoon for simple, disposable furniture, but the walls were adorned with truly beautiful works of art from the collection of her mother, a woman of discerning taste and double fortune after remarrying an Argentinean named Helmut.

By noon, October 30th, we had seen our Andean collections in the hands of arrieros bound for Guayaquil, whence they were to be shipped by way of Panama to Washington, and our baggage train for Napo headed toward the rising sun.

Perhaps if her collection included species from Phylum Arthropoda rather than the tediously inelegant Mammalia, I might find it of some small value.

The collection, such as it was, was in the Avestan dialect, which had grown partially obsolete and unintelligible.

Second, you show up dressed to party with your pet in tow at that club, the club that Balthazar uses as his main collection area.

In conclusion, it may be said that the present volume contains many precious relics of the Bewick, Newbury, Goldsmith, Newcastle York, Banbury, Coventry, and Catnach presses, and a representative collection of the stock of workable woodcuts of a provincial printer in the latter part of the 18th century, and to those who would like to inspect the rentable copies of those valuable and interesting little books, and some of the original Horn Books, etc.

Martin, and during the course of the evening I decided to mention the prospective collections in case he had ever done a unicorn story or a barroom story.

Her collection of beargrass, cattail leaves and stalks, reeds, willow switches, roots of trees, would be made into baskets, tightly woven or of looser weave in intricate patterns, for cooking, eating, storage containers, winnowing trays, serving trays, mats for sitting upon, serving or drying food.

He always did it, in these spells, and the word was like a skewer pinning her to the beaverboard among the other butterflies of his collection.