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

Causing rapid waste or exhaustion; melting; as, collequative sweats.

To bring into a square. [R.] Ash.

To shake; to agitate. [Obs.] Harvey. -- Con`quas*sa"tion, n. [Obs.]

A genus of plants (Briza); quaking grass.

A brittle cake or other crisp pastry.

See Kumquat.

cause to melt away; to dissolve; to consume; to waste. [Obs.] Dilapidating, or rather deliquating, his bishopric. Fuller.

A melting. [Obs.]

A note of half the length of the quaver; a semiquaver. [R.]

A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.

To diminish the quantity of; to disquantity. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.

The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.

Of, pertaining to, or attended with, desquamation.

An instrument formerly used in removing the laminæ of exfoliated bones.

To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. [Obs.] While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick.

Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance. [Obs.] South.

The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices.

To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act. My common illness disqualifies me for all conversation; I mean my deafness. Swift. Me are not disqualified by their engagements in trade from being received in hi…