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A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.

To make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one's style of writing.

A speaker in a colloquy or dialogue. Malone.

al discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation. They went to Worms, to the colloquy there about religion. A. Wood.

A photomechanical print made directly from a hardened film of gelatin or other colloid; also, the process of making such prints. According to one method, the film is sensitized with potassium dichromate and exposed to light under a reversed negative. After the dichromate has been washed out, the film is soaked in glyce…

Soot; smut. See 1st Colly. [Obs.]

A struggling to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature. [Obs.]

A struggling; a contention. [Obs.] Colluctation with old hags and hobgoblins. Dr. H. More.

ire; to act in concert. If they let things take their course, they will be represented as colluding with sedition. Burke.

One who conspires in a fraud.

Same as Collar. Gray.

purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning. The foxe, maister of collusion. Spenser. That they [miracles] be done publicly, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion. Atterbury. By the ignorance of the merchants or dishonesty of the weavers, or the co…

Characterized by collusion; done or planned in collusion. "Collusive and sophistical arguings." J. Trapp. "Collusive divorces." Strype.

Collusive.

A medicated wash for the mouth.

A collection or gathering, as of pus, or rubbish, or odds and ends.

To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime. [Archaic.] Thou hast not collied thy face enough. B. Jonson. Brief as the lighting in the collied night. Shak.

A money changer. [Obs.] In the face of these guilty collybists. Bp. Hall.

An application to the eye, usually an eyewater.

Having the anterior toes connected by a basal web.