COLLECTION

Definitions

1. 1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
2. 2. That which is collected; as: (a) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay.
3. 3. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings. "The collection for the saints." 1 Cor. xvi. 1
4. 4. An accumulation of any substance. "Collections of moisture." Whewell. "A purulent collection." Dunglison.
5. 5. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. [Obs.] We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. Milton.
6. 6. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. [Eng.]