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A tool to polish the edge of a sole. Knight.

A state of opposition; antagonism; interference. The collision of contrary false principles. Bp. Warburton. Sensitive to the most trifling collisions. W. Irving.

Colliding; clashing. [Obs.]

Disputing or wrangling. [Obs.] -- n.

To set or place; to set; to station. To marshal and collocate in order his battalions. E. Hall.

te of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.

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

One of the speakers in a dialogue. Derham.

wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography. Collodion process (Photog.), a process in which a film of sensitized collodion is used in preparing the plate for taking a picture. -- Styptic collodion, collodion containing an astringent, as tannin.

To prepare or treat with collodion. R. Hunt.

A picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype.

See Collodion.

nfidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief. [Archaic or Colloq.] Pray go in; and, sister, salve the matter, Collogue with her again, and all shall be well. Greene. He had been colloguing with my wife. Thackeray.

Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, colloids.

The state or quality of being colloidal.

A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh. God knows thou art a collop of my flesh. Shak. Sweetbread and collops were with skewers pricked. Dryden.

Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops. With that red, gaunt, and colloped neck astrain. R. Browning.

A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola.

n, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style. -- Col*lo"qui*al*ly, adv. His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the highest order. Macaulay.