Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COL'LET, n. [Fr. collet, a collar, or neck, from L. collum.]

1. Among jewelers, the horizontal face or plane at the bottom of brilliants; or the part of a ring in which the stone is set. – Encyc. Johnson.
2. In glass-making, that part of glass vessels which sticks to the iron instrument used in taking the substance from the melting-pot. – Encyc.
3. Anciently, a band or collar.
4. A term used by turners. – Johnson.
5. In botany, the neck or part of a plant from which spring the ascending and descending axes. – Lindley.

COL-LET'IC, a.

Having the property of gluing; agglutinant. Encyc.

COL-LET'IC, n. [Gr. κολλητικος.]

An agglutinant. Encyc.

COL-LIDE', v.i. [L. collido; con and lædo, to strike.]

To strike or dash against each other. Brown.

COL-LID'ING, ppr.

Striking, or dashing against.

COL'LIER, n. [col'yer. from coal.]

1. A digger of coal; one who works in a coal-mine. – Johnson.
2. A coal-merchant, or dealer in coal. – Bacon.
3. A coasting vessel employed in the coal trade, or in transporting coal from the ports where it is received from the mines, to the ports where it is purchased for consumption.

COL'LIER-Y, n. [col'yery.]

1. The place where coal is dug. [See Coalery.]
2. The coal trade. – Qu.

COL'LI-FLOW-ER, n.

See CAULIFLOWER.

COL'LI-GATE, v.t. [L. colligo; con and ligo, to bind.]

To tie or bind together. The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows. – Nich. Dict.

COL'LI-GA-TED, pp.

Tied or bound together.

COL'LI-GA-TING, ppr.

Binding together.

COL-LI-GA'TION, n.

A binding together. – Brown.

COL-LI-MA'TION, n.¹ [L. collimo; con and limes, a limit. Ainsworth suggests that it may be an error, and that collineo, con and linea, is the real reading; but collimo is in perfect analogy with other words of like signification. To aim, is to direct to the limit or end.]

The act of aiming at a mark; aim; the act of leveling, or of directing the sight to a fixed object. – Asiat. Researches.

COL-LI-MA'TION, n.²

In a telescope, the line of collimation is the line of sight, or a straight line passing through the center of the object glass.

COL-LI-MA'TOR, n.

An instrument for ascertaining the horizontal point.

COL-LIN-E-A'TION, n. [L. collineo; con and linea, a line.]

The act of aiming, or directing in a line to a fixed object. – Johnson.

COL'LING, n. [L. collum, the neck.]

An embrace; dalliance. [Not used.] – Chaucer.

COL-LIN'GUAL, a.

Having or pertaining to the same language.

COL-LIQ'UA-BLE, a. [See Colliquate.]

That may be liquefied, or melted; liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid.

COL-LIQ'UA-MENT, n.

1. The substance formed by melting; that which is melted. Bailey. Johnson.
2. Technically, the fetal part of an egg; the transparent fluid in an egg, containing the first rudiments of the chick. – Coxe. Encyc.
3. The first rudiments of an embryo in generation. – Coxe.

COL'LI-QUANT, a.

That has the power of dissolving or melting.

COL'LI-QUATE, v.i. [L. colliqueo; con and liqueo, to melt. See Liquid.]

To melt; to dissolve; to change from solid to fluid; to become liquid. – Brown.

COL'LI-QUATE, v.t.

To melt or dissolve.

COL'LI-QUA-TED, pp.

Melted; dissolved; turned from a solid to a fluid substance. – Boyle. Harvey.

COL'LI-QUA-TING, ppr.

Melting; dissolving.