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COLLIE, COLLEY, _s._
1. The shepherd's dog, S. A. Bor.
_Burns._
Ir. _cuilean_, Gael. _culie_, a little dog.
2. One who follows another constantly, S.
3. A lounger, one who hunts for a dinner.
_Calderwood._
_To_ COLLIE, _v. a._ To abash, to silence in an argument; in allusion to a dog, who, when mastered or affronted, walks off with his tail between his feet, Fife.
COLLIESHANGIE, _s._
1. An uproar, a squabble, S.
_Ross._
2. A ring of plaited gra.s.s or straw, through which a lappet of a woman's gown, or fold of a man's coat is clandestinely thrust, in order to excite ridicule, Ang.
Perhaps from _collie_ and _shangie_, q. v.
COLPINDACH, _s._ A young cow that has never calved.
_Skene._
Gael. _colbhtach_, a cow calf.
COM, COME, _s._ Act of coming, arrival.
_Barbour._
A. S. _c.u.m_, _cyme_, adventus.
_To_ COME, _v. n._
1. To sprout, to spring; applied to grain, when it begins to germinate, S.
2. To sprout at the lower end; applied to grain in the process of malting, S.
_Chalm. Air._
Isl. _keim-a_, Germ. _kiem-en_, id.
COMERWALD, _adj._ Hen-pecked.
_Dunbar._
_Comer_, a gossip, and A. S. _wald_, power.
COMMEND, _s._ A comment, a commentary.
_Douglas._
COMMEND, _s._ A benefice _in commendam_.
_Douglas._
Fr. _commende_, L. B. _commenda_, id.
COMMON, COMMOUN. _To be in one's common_, to be obliged to one, S.
_Pitscottie._
_To quite a commoun_, to requite.
_Knox._
From _commons_ as signifying fare.
COMMONTIE, _s._
1. A common, S.
Lat. _communit-as_.
2. Community.
_Acts Ja. VI._
COMPARGES, _Leg._ _compaignyies_, companies.
_Houlate._
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