Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COL-LI-QUA'TION, n.

1. The act of melting. – Boyle.
2. A dissolving, flowing or wasting; applied to the blood, when it does not readily coagulate, and to the solid parts, when they waste away by excessive secretion, occasioning fluxes and profuse clammy sweats. – Coxe. Encyc. Quincy.

COL-LIQ'UA-TIVE, a.

Melting; dissolving; appropriately indicating a morbid discharge of the animal fluids; as, a colliquative fever, which is accompanied with diarrhea, or profuse sweats; a colliquative sweat is a profuse clammy sweat.

COL-LIQ-UE-FAC'TION, n. [L. colliquefacio.]

A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. – Bacon.

COL-LI'SION, n. [s as z. L. collisio, from collido, collisi; con and lædo, to strike or hurt.]

1. The act of striking together; a striking together of two hard bodies. – Milton.
2. The state of being struck together; a clashing. Hence,
3. Opposition; interference; as, a collision of interests or of parties.
4. A running against each other, as ships at sea. – Marshal on Insurance. Walsh.

COL-LIT'I-GANT, n.

One who litigates or wrangles with another.

COL'LO-CATE, a.

Set; placed. – Bacon.

COL'LO-CATE, v.t. [L. colloco; con and loco, to set or place.]

To set or place; to set; to station.

COL'LO-CA-TED, pp.

Placed.

COL'LO-CA-TING, ppr.

Setting; placing.

COL'LO-CA'TION, n. [L. collocatio.]

1. A setting; the act of placing; disposition in place.
2. The state of being placed, or placed with something else. – Bacon.

COL-LO-CU'TION, n. [L. collocutio; con and locutio, from loquor, to speak.]

A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse. – Bailey. Johnson.

COL'LO-CU-TOR, n.

One of the speakers in a dialogue.

COL-LOGUE', v.t.

To wheedle. [Not in use.]

COL'LOP, n.

1. A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh. – Dryden.
2. In burlesque, a child. – Shak. In Job. xv. 27, it seems to have the sense of a thick piece or fleshy lump. “He maketh collops of fat on his flanks.” This is the sense of the word in New England.

COL-LO'QUI-AL, a. [See Colloquy.]

Pertaining to common conversation, or to mutual discourse; as, colloquial language; a colloquial phrase.

COL-LO'QUI-AL-LY, adv.

By mutual conversation.

COL'LO-QUIST, n.

A speaker in a dialogue. – Malone.

COL'LO-QUY, n. [L. colloquium; con and loquor, to speak.]

Conversation; mutual discourse of two or more; conference; dialogue. – Milton. Taylor.

COL'LOW, n.

See COLLY.

COL-LUC'TAN-CY, n. [L. colluctor; con and luctor, to struggle.]

A struggling to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature.

COL-LUC-TA'TION, n.

A struggling to resist; contest; resistance; opposition; contrariety. Woodward.

COL-LUDE', v.i. [L. colludo; con and ludo, to play, to banter, to mock.]

To play into the hand of each other; to conspire in a fraud; to act in concert. – Johnson.

COL-LUD'ER, n.

One who conspires in a fraud.

COL-LUD'ING, n.

A trick; collusion.

COL-LUD'ING, ppr.

Conspiring with another in a fraud.