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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.

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.