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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.

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.