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One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.

The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.

See Cauliflower.

To tie or bind together. The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows. Nicholson.

ed that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse. "The colligation of facts." Whewell. Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation. J. S. Mill.

To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.

The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument. Error of collimation, the deviation of the line collimation of an astronomical instrument from the position it ought to have with…

A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal. Nichol.

A very pure form of gelatin.

A small hill or mount. [Obs.] And watered park, full of fine collines and ponds. Evelyn.

The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. [R.] Johnson.

An embrace; dalliance. [Obs.] Halliwell.

With embraces. [Obs.] Gascoigne.

Having, or pertaining to, the same language.

Liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid. [Obs.] Harvey.

The first rudiments of an embryo in generation. Dr. H. More.

To change from solid to fluid; to make or become liquid; to melt. [Obs.] The ore of it is colliquated by the violence of the fire. Boyle. [Ice] will colliquate in water or warm oil. Sir T. Browne.

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.

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

uction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.