Part 352

When sand and ashes are well melted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call "glass". Boyle.

2. (Med.) A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages. [Obs.]

Col*liq"ua*tive (?), a. Causing rapid waste or exhaustion; melting; as, colliquative sweats.

Col*liq`ue*fac"tion (?), n. [L. colliquefactus melted; col- + liquefacere; liquēre to be liquid + facere to make.] A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.

The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.

Col"lish (?), n. (Shoemaking) A tool to polish the edge of a sole. Knight.

Col*li"sion (?), n. [L. collisio, fr. collidere. See Collide.] 1. The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.

2. A state of opposition; antagonism; interference.

The collision of contrary false principles. Bp. Warburton.

Sensitive to the most trifling collisions. W. Irving.

Syn. -- Conflict; clashing; encounter; opposition.

Col*li"sive (?), a. Colliding; clashing. [Obs.]

Col*lit"i*gant (?), a. Disputing or wrangling. [Obs.] -- n. One who litigates or wrangles. [Obs.]

Col"lo*cate (?), a. [L. collocatus, p. p. of collocare. See Couch.] Set; placed. [Obs.] Bacon.

Col"lo*cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collocated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Collocating (?).] To set or place; to set; to station.

To marshal and collocate in order his battalions. E. Hall.

Col`lo*ca"tion (?), n. [L. collocatio.] The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.

The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.

Col`lo*cu"tion (?), n. [L. collocutio, fr. colloqui, -locutum, to converse; col- + loqui to speak. See Loquacious.] A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse. Bailey.

Col"lo*cu`tor (?), n. [L. collocutor] One of the speakers in a dialogue. Derham.

Col*lo"di*on (?), n. [Gr. &?; like glue; ko`lla glue + &?; form. Cf. Colloid.] (Chem.) A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a coating for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography.

Collodion process (Photog.), a process in which a film of sensitized collodion is used in preparing the plate for taking a picture. -- Styptic collodion, collodion containing an astringent, as tannin.

Col*lo"di*on*ize (?), v. t. To prepare or treat with collodion. R. Hunt.

Col*lo"di*o*type (?), n. A picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype.

Col*lo"di*um (?), n. See Collodion.

Col*logue" (?), v. i. [Cf. L. colloqui and E. dialogue. Cf. Collocution.] To talk or confer secretly and confidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief. [Archaic or Colloq.]

Pray go in; and, sister, salve the matter, Collogue with her again, and all shall be well. Greene.

He had been colloguing with my wife. Thackeray.