▪ I. † colline, n. Obs.
Also 7 collin.
[a. F. colline hill, ad. L. collīna (sc. terra) hilly land, f. coll-is hill.]
A small hill.
| c 1630 Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. 35 And every hill and collin crowns with palms. 1641 Evelyn Mem. (1819) I. 291 A nobly wellwall'd, wooded, and watered park, full of fine collines and ponds. 1697 Phil. Trans. XIX. 727 A Rill of about an Ell broad between Two Collines. |
▪ II. † colline, v. Obs. rare—1.
(kəˈlaɪn)
[ad. L. collīne-āre to direct in a straight line, to aim, f. col- together + līnea line, līneāre to bring into straight line: see -ate.]
trans. To aim, to direct.
| 1674 Z. Cawdrey Catholicon Pref. 1 My endeavours in this discourse are..collined at the stopping the growth of rigid Separation. |