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.