Any food with an especially delicious flavour or fragrance.
Any fungus of a number of species that insects such as ambrosia beetles carry as symbionts, "farming" them on poor-quality food such as wood, where they grow, providing food for the insect.
A dessert made of shredded coconuts and tropical fruits such as pineapples and oranges; some recipes also include ingredients such as marshmallow and cream.
Anything delightfully sweet and pleasing.
The anointing-oil of the gods.
The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality.
A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
An annual herb historically used medicinally and in cooking, Dysphania botrys.
Any light meal or snack.
An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
A collection, a gathering.
The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
Presentation to a benefice.
A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)
The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.
The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.
The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.