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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Cŏl'li-quāte, v. t.p. 251To change from solid to fluid; to become liquid. [Obs.] Ice will dissolve in any way of heat; ... it will colliquate in water or warm oil. Browne.
  2. cŏl'li-quāte, v. t.p. 251To melt or dissolve. [Obs.] Boyle.
  3. Col·li·quā'tion, n.p. 251The act of melting. 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.) The…
  4. Col-liq'ua-tive, a.p. 251Causing rapid waste or exhaustion; as, colliquative sweats.
  5. Col-liq'ue-fac'tion, n.p. 251A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. “The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction.” Bacon.
  6. Col-lĭs'ion, n.p. 251The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a clashing. The flint and the steel you may move apart as long as you please, but it is the hitting and collision of them…
  7. Col-lit'i-gant, n.p. 251One who litigates or wrangles with another.
  8. Col-lit'i-gant, a.p. 251Disputing with another; wrangling together; contending. [Obs.]
  9. Cŏl'lo-cāte, v. t.p. 251To set or place; to set; to station.
  10. Cŏl'lo-cate, a.p. 251Set; placed. Bacon.
  11. Cŏl'lo-cā'tion, n.p. 251The act of placing; disposition in place; as, the collocation of words. Harris. 2. The state of being placed, or placed with something else. Bacon.
  12. Cŏl·lo-cū'tion, n.p. 251A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse. [Obs.] Bailey.
  13. Cŏl·lo·cū'tor, n.p. 251One of the speakers in a dialogue. [Obs.] Derham.
  14. Col-lō'di-on, n.p. 251(Chem.) A solution of gun-cotton in ether. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons to close up wounds. It is also employed in photography. R. Hunt.
  15. Col-lō'di-on-ize, v. t.p. 251To prepare or treat with collodion. R. Hunt.
  16. Col-lōgue', v. t.p. 251To address with coaxing or flattery.
  17. Col·lōgue', v. i.p. 251To talk closely; to confer; to converse, especially with deceitful or delusive intentions. [Obs. or rare.] Pray go in; and, sister, salve the matter; Colloque with her again, and all shall be well.…
  18. Col-loid', n.p. 251(Med.) Resembling glue or jelly; as, colloid tumors.
  19. Cŏl'lop, n.p. 251A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh. God knows thou art a collop of my flesh, And for thy sake I have shed many a tear. Shak. Sweetbreads and collops were with skewers pricked. Dryden. 2. A part…
  20. Col-lō'qui-al, a.p. 251Pertaining to, or employed in, common conversation, as distinguished from formal or elegant discourse. His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the highest order. Macaulay.
  21. Col-lō'qui-al-ism, n.p. 251A colloquial form of expression.
  22. Col-lō'qui-al-ly, adv.p. 251By mutual conversation.
  23. Cŏl'lo-quist, n.p. 251A speaker in a dialogue. Malone.
  24. Cŏl'lo-quy, n.p. 252The mutual discourse of two or more; conference; dialogue. Milton.
  25. Cōl'lōw, n. & v.p. 252See COLLY.
  26. Col·lūc'tan-cy, n.p. 252A struggling to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature. [Obs.]
  27. Cŏl'lūc-tā'tion, n.p. 252A struggling to resist; contest; resistance; opposition. [Obs.] “Colluctation with old hags and hobgoblins.” Henry More.
  28. Col·lūde', v. i.p. 252To play into the hands of each other; to conspire in a fraud; to act in concert. If they let things take their course, they will be represented as colluding with sedition. Burke.
  29. Col-lūd'er, n.p. 252One who conspires in a fraud.
  30. Col·lū'sion, n.p. 252A secret agreement and co-operation for a fraudulent purpose; deceit; fraud. By the ignorance of the merchants or dishonesty of the weavers, or the collusion of both, the ware was bad and the price…
  31. Col-lū'sive, a.p. 252Fraudulently concerted; deceitful; tricky; as, a collusive agreement. “Collusive divorces.” Strype.
  32. Col-lū'sive-ly, adv.p. 252By collusion; by secret agreement to defraud.
  33. Col-lū'sive-ness, n.p. 252The quality of being collusive.
  34. Col-lū'so-ry, a.p. 252Characterized by collusion; collusive.
  35. Col-lū'vi-ēs, n. sing. & pl.p. 252A mixed mass of refuse matter; filth.
  36. Cōl'ly, n.p. 252The black grime or soot of coal or burnt wood. [Written also collow.] Burton.
  37. Cŏl'ly, v. t.p. 252To render black or dark, as if with coal smut. Nor hast thou collied thy face enough. B. Jonson. Brief as the lightning in the collied night. Shak.
  38. Cōl'ly, n.p. 252A variety of dog much esteemed by Scotch shepherds. [Written also collie.]
  39. Cōl'ly-bist, n.p. 252One who changes money; a money-broker. [Obs.] “In the faces of these guilty collybists.” Bp. Hall.
  40. Col-lȳr'i-ūm, n.p. 252(Med.) (a.) A preparation of medicine in a solid state, having a long and cylindrical form, designed to be inserted into some of the openings of the body, as the nostrils. [Obs.] (b.) An application…
  41. Cōl'o-cynth, n.p. 252(Med.) The coloquintida, or bitter apple of the shops; the spongy part or pith of the fruit of a species of cucumber (Cucumis colocynthis). It has a bitter, nauseous, and acrimonious taste, and is a…
  42. Cōl'o-gynth'ine, n.p. 252(Chem.) The active medicinal principle of the colocynth. Gregory.
  43. Co·lōgne', n.p. 252A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol, and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet;—so called because originally made in Cologne.
  44. Co-lōgne'-ēarth, n.p. 252(Min.) An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal. Dana.
  45. Cō'lon, n.p. 252(Anat.) That part of the large intestines which extends from the cœcum to the rectum. [See Illust. of Digestion.] Dunglison. 2. (Gram.) A point or character formed thus [:], marking a pause greater…
  46. Co-lōne', n.p. 252A clown; a rustic. [Obs.] “A country colone toil and moil.” Burton.
  47. Colonel, n.p. 252(Mil.) The chief commander of a regiment of troops; the officer next below a brigadier-general.
  48. Colonel, v. i.p. 252To play the colonel; to rove about as a knight-errant. [Low.] When he forsook the peaceful dwelling, And out he went a coloneling. Hudibras.
  49. Colonel-cy or Colonel-ship, n.p. 252(Mil.) The office, rank, or commission of a colonel.
  50. Cōl'o-ner, n.p. 252A colonist. [Obs.] Holland.
  51. Co-lō'ni-al, a.p. 252Pertaining to a colony; as, colonial government. “A passion for colonial traffic.” Macaulay.
  52. Co-lōn'i-al, a.p. 252Of, or pertaining to, husbandmen. [Obs.] Colonial services were those which were done by ceorls or socmen (that is, husbandmen) to their lords of all sorts. Spelman.
  53. Cōl'o-nist, n.p. 252A member or inhabitant of a colony.
  54. Cōl'o-nī'tis, n.p. 252(Med.) Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the colon; dysentery; colitis.
  55. Cōl'o-ni-zā'tion, n.p. 252The act of colonizing, or state of being colonized. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.
  56. Cŏl'o-ni-zā'tion-ist, n.p. 252A friend to colonization, particularly to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.
  57. Cŏl'o-nīze, v. t.p. 252To plant or establish a colony in; to people by colonies. Bacon.
  58. Cŏl'o-nīze, v. i.p. 252To remove and settle in a distant country; as, to colonize in India. Buchanan.
  59. Cŏl'on-nāde', n.p. 252(Arch.) A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals. ☞ When in front of a building, it is called a portico; when surrounding a building, a peristyle; when the rows of columns are double…
  60. Cōl'o-ny, n.p. 252A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state, or their descendants, so long as they remain…