COLLIQUANT
COLLIQUANT, adjective That has the power of dissolving or melting.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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COLLIQUATE
COLLIQUATE, verb intransitive To melt; to dissolve; to change from solid to fluid; to become liquid.COLLIQUATE, verb transitive To melt or dissolve.
COLLIQUATED
COLLIQUATED, participle passive Melted; dissolved; turned from a solid to a fluid substance.
COLLIQUATING
COLLIQUATING, participle present tense Melting; dissolving.
COLLIQUATION
COLLIQUATION, noun1. The act of melting.2. A dissolving, flowing or wasting; applied to the blood, when it does not readily coagulate, and to the solid parts, when they waste aw...
COLLIQUATIVE
COLLIQUATIVE, adjective Melting; dissolving; appropriately indicating a morbid discharge of the animal fluids; as a colliquative fever, which is accompanied with diarrhoea, or p...
COLLIQUEFACTION
COLLIQUEFACTION, noun A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.
COLLISION
COLLISION, noun s as z.1. The act of striking together; a striking together of two hard bodies.2. The state of being struck together; a clashing. Hence,3. Opposition; interferen...
COLLOCATE
COLLOCATE, verb transitive To set or place; to set; to station.COLLOCATE, adjective Set; placed.
COLLOCATED
COLLOCATED, participle passive Placed.
COLLOCATING
COLLOCATING, participle present tense Setting; placing.
COLLOCATION
COLLOCATION, noun1. A setting; the act of placing; disposition in place.2. The state of being placed, or placed with something else.
COLLOCUTION
COLLOCUTION, noun A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse.
COLLOCUTOR
COLLOCUTOR, noun One of the speakers in a dialogue.
COLLOGUE
COLLOGUE, verb transitive To wheedle.
COLLOP
COLLOP, noun1. A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh.2. In burlesque, a child.In Job 15:27, it seems to have the sense of a thick piece or fleshy lump. He maketh collops of fa...
COLLOQUIAL
COLLOQUIAL, adjective [See Colloquy.] Pertaining to common conversation, or to mutual discourse; as colloquial language; a colloquial phrase.
COLLOQUIST
COLLOQUIST, noun A speaker in a dialogue.
COLLOQUY
COLLOQUY, noun Conversation; mutual discourse of two or more; conference; dialogue.
COLLOW
COLLOW. [See Colly.]
COLLUCATATION
COLLUCATATION, noun A struggling to resist; contest; resistance; opposition; contrariety.
COLLUCTANCY
COLLUCTANCY, noun A struggling to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature.
COLLUDE
COLLUDE, verb intransitive To play into the hand of each other; to conspire in a fraud; to act in concert.
COLLUDER
COLLUDER, noun One who conspires in a fraud.
COLLUDING
COLLUDING, participle present tense Conspiring with another in a fraud.COLLUDING, noun A trick; collusion.
COLLUSION
COLLUSION, noun s as z.1. In law, a deceitful agreement or compact between two or more persons, for the one party to bring an action against the other, for some evil purpose, as...
COLLUSIVE
COLLUSIVE, adjective Fraudulently concerted between two or more; as a collusive agreement.