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

Johnson complained that no man could be properly inspired by the Pembroke "coll," or college beer, which was then commonly drunk by undergraduates, still guiltless of Rhine wines, and of collecting Chinese monsters.

From Oxford by Lang, Andrew

Trí mairb direnaiter beoaib: aball, coll, fidnemed. dorenatar beo N 159.

From The Triads of Ireland by Meyer, Kuno

Robin made his testament Upon a coll of hay; And by cam' a greedy gled And snapt him a' away.

From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Ford, Robert

In "Wily Beguiled," 1606: "I'll clasp thee, and clip thee; coll thee, and kiss thee, till I be better than nought, and worse than nothing."

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew