Oollida 
Oollida (kol'i-dS), n. pi. [NL., < Gr. 
glue, + -ida.] A superfamily group of mono- 
eyttarian or monozoic radjolarians having a 
single central nucleus : distinguished from Col- 
lozoa or polycyttarian forms. 
collide (ko-fid'), v. ; pret. and pp. collided, ppr. 
colliding. " [=D. collideren = Gr. coWirfiraj = Dan. 
kollidere = Sp. colidir (obs.) = Pg. collidir = It. 
collidere, < L. collidere, conlidere, strike or clash 
together, < com-, together, + Iwdere, strike, dash 
against, hurt: see lesion.] 1. intrans. To strike 
together with force ; come into violent contact ; 
meet in opposition : as, the ships collided in mid- 
ocean ; their plans collided, or collided with each 
other. 
It colored electric lights could be produced, . . . the 
risk of colliding with other steamers . . . carrying elec- 
tric lanterns would be lessened, . . . but the danger of 
running down smaller craft which must use the ordinary 
light would be enhanced. 
Appleton's Ann. Cyc., 1883, p. 137. 
II. trans. To strike against ; encounter with 
a shock. [Rare.] 
Struck or collided by a solid body. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 23. 
colliding (kol'i-din), n. [< Gr. xoJUa, glue, + 
-id 1 + -ine 2 .] A ptomain prepared by Neucki 
from decaying glue. It is an oily, colorless 
liquid (CgHuN), has an agreeable odor, and is 
very poisonous. 
collie (kol'i), n. [Also written colly, colley, 
dial, or obs. coley, coaly, coolly, etc.; prob. < 
Gael, cuilean, cuilein, a whelp, puppy, cub, = 
IT. cuileann, a whelp, kitten.] A sheep-dog ; a 
variety of dog especially common in Scotland, 
much esteemed by shepherds and also by dog- 
fanciers. 
The tither was a ploughman's collie, 
A rhyming, ranting, roving billie, 
Wha for his friend and comrade had him. 
Burns, The Twa Dogs. 
collier 1 (kol'yer), n. [Also coalier, coallier, 
conformed to coal, but the vowel is properly 
short; earlier mod. E. colier, < ME. colyer, cot- 
ter, < col, coal, + -yer, -i-er, as in lawyer, sawyer, 
bowyer : see coal. Cf . MLG. kolere = MHG. ko- 
lare, G. kohler.] 1. A digger of coal; one who 
works in a coal-mine. 
That five or six thousand colliers and ploughmen should 
contend during an hour with half that number of regular 
cavalry and infantry would now be thought a miracle. 
Ma i-ii n 1 11,1. Hist. Bug., v. 
2f. A coal-merchant or dealer in coal. 
All maner of colyers that bryngeth colys to towne for to 
sille, smale or grete, that they bryng their sakkes of juste 
mesure. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 425. 
3. A coasting-vessel employed in the coal-trade. 
Choliers that cayreden [carry] col come there blside. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2620. 
Collier's lung, inpathol., anthracosia. 
collier 2 (kol'yer), n. The gaper, Mya truncata, 
a bivalve mollusk. [Local. Irish.] 
collier-aphis (koryer-a/'fis), n. Same as dol- 
pnin-fly. 
colliery (kol'yer-i), n. ; pi. collieries (-iz). [Also, 
rarely, coalery, conformed to coal; < collier*- + 
-y: see -ery. Cf. coalery.] 1. A place where 
coal is dug; a coal-mine or -pit, with the re- 
quisite apparatus for working it. 2. The coal- 
trade. 
collieshangie (kol'i-shang'i), n. [Sc., appar. 
a loose compound of collie, a dog, + shangie, a 
chain with which dogs were tied.] A noisy 
quarrel or dispute ; a confused uproar. 
How the collieshangie works 
Atween the Russians and the Turks. 
Burns. 
Patting her husband on the shoulder, she bade him sit 
down for a " hard-headed loon, that was aye bringing him- 
sell and other folk into collie-shangies." 
Scott, Guy Mannering, xxiv. 
colliflowert (kol'i-flou-er), n. An old spelling 
of cauliflower. 
colliform (kol'i-f6rm), a. [< L. collum, neck, + 
forma, shape.] In entom., having the form of 
a collar: applied to the pronotum when it is 
short, narrow, and closely applied to the meso- 
thorax. 
colligate (kol'i-gat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. colli- 
gated, ppr. colligating. [< L. colligatus, pp. of 
colligare, conligare, bind together, < com-, to- 
gether, + ligare, bind: see litigation.] To bind 
or fasten together, literally or figuratively. 
The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows. Nicholson. 
The scientific ideas by which the phenomena are colli- 
gated. Whewell, Philos. of Discovery. 
The beasts delighted in dashing furiously through one 
file, which being colligated was thrown each time into the 
greatest confusion. R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 369. 
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colligation (kol-i-ga'shon), n. [< L. colliga- 
tio(n-), < colligare: see colligate.'] 1. A bind- 
ing or twisting together. 
That tortuosity or complicated nodosity we usually call 
the navel ; occasioned by the colligation of vessels before 
mentioned. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 5. 
2. In logic, the binding together of facts by 
means of a general description or hypothesis 
which applies to them all. 
All received theories in science, up to the present time, 
have been established by taking up some supposition, and 
comparing it, directly or by means of its remoter conse- 
quences, with the facts it was intended to embrace. Its 
agreement, under certain cautions and conditions, ... is 
held to be the evidence of its truth. It answers its genu- 
ine purpose, the colligation of facts. 
Whewell, Nov. Org. Renovatum, iv. 11. 
Colligation is not always induction ; but induction is al- 
ways colliyation. J. S. Mitt, Logic, III. ii. 4. 
colligenert, . [For "collegener, < college + -ner 
as in citiner, cltessner, etc.] One living in a 
college or monastery; a collegiate; a cenobite. 
St. Augustine in his book entitled De opera monacho- 
rum crieth out against idle colligeners. 
Dr. Hutchinson, Image of God, p. 203. 
colligiblet (kol'i-ji-bl), a. [< L. colligere, col- 
lect (see collect, v.), + -ible.] Capable of be- 
ing collected or gathered. Fuller. 
collilongus (kol-i-long'gus), n.; pi. collilongi 
(-lon'ji). [NL., < L. collum, neck, + longus, 
long.] The long straight muscle which lies on 
the front of the cervical vertebras : more com- 
monly called the longus colli. Coues. 
collimate (kol'i-mat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. colli- 
mated, ppr. collimating. [< L. *collimatu8, pp. 
of 'collimare, a false reading (appar. simulating 
L. limes, limit, bound), in some manuscripts 
of Cicero and Aulus Gellius, of collineare, pp. 
collineatus, of which the proper E. form is coi- 
lineate, q. v. Cf. It. collimare, aim at, point.] 
To bring into the same line, as the axes of two 
lenses or the telescope of an optical instrument ; 
also, to make parallel, as the rays of light pass- 
ing through a lens. 
collimating (kol'i-ma-ting), p. a. [Ppr. of colli- 
mate, v.} Correcting inaccurate adjustment in 
the line of sight of a telescope ; making paral- 
lel Collimating eyepiece, an eyepiece with a diago- 
nal reflector, used to determine the error of collimation in 
a transit instrument. Collimating lens, a lens like that 
of the collimator of a spectroscope. 
collimation (kol-i-ma'shon), n. [< collimate (see 
-ation) ; = F. collimation"= Pg. collimaccto. Cf. 
collineation.] The accurate adjustment of the 
line of sight of a telescope. A telescope having 
only one motion, as a meridian Instrument or a surveyors' 
level, is in collimation when the mean of the wires or 
other assumed point apparently traverses a great circle 
of the heavens when the telescope is rotated. The error 
of collimation, or the distance of the small circle actually 
described, when the line of sight is not accurately ad- 
justed, from the parallel great circle, is also familiarly 
called the collimation. It is measured by reversing the 
telescope in its bearings and measuring half the angular 
distance between the two objects thus successively brought 
to the mean position of the wires. Two telescopes are 
said to be in collimation when their optical axes coincide. 
Line of collimation. the line in which the optical 
axis of the telescope ought to be. 
collimator (kol'i-ma-tor), n. [< collimate + 
-or.] 1. A fixed telescope with a system of 
wires at its focus, and so arranged that another 
telescope can readily be brought into collima- 
tion with it, when an observer at the eyepiece 
of the latter can look into the objective of the 
former and see the cross-wires or slit in its focal 
plane. The intersection of the wires of the 
collimator is used as a standard point of refer- 
ence. 2. The receiving telescope of a spec- 
troscope, consisting of a slit through which the 
light enters, and a tube with a lens at its ex- 
tremity which causes the rays to fall upon the 
prism or grating in parallel lines. 
collin (kol'in), n. [< Gr. K6Ma, glue, + -i2.] 
The purest form of gelatin, taken as the type 
of all similar substances, which are hence called 
colloids. 
collinet (kol'in), n. [< F. colline = Sp. colina 
= Pg. It. collina, a hill, < ML. collina, hilly land, 
fern. (so. L. terra, land) of L. collinus, adj., < 
collis, a hill, = E. hill : see Mi.] A little hill ; 
a mount. [Rare.] 
It has also a ... nobly well wall'd, wooded, and watered 
park, full of fine collines and ponds. 
Evelyn, Diary, Sept., 1664. 
collinear (ko-lin'e-ar), a. [< L. com-, together, 
+ linea, line: see linear, and cf. collineate.~\ 
Lying in the same straight line. 
coilineate (ko-lin'e-at), v. ; pret. and pp. col- 
lineated, ppr. colKneating. [< L. collineatus, pp. 
of collineare, conlineare, direct in a straight line, 
aim, < com-, with, + lineare, < linea, line. Cf. 
colliquefaction 
collimate.] I. trans. To bring into a fixed 
straight line; bring into line with something 
else. 
II. intrans. To lie in a line with another, 
collineation (ko-lin-e-a'shon), n. [= F. colli- 
neation, < L. as if *collineaiio(n-), < collineare: 
see coilineate.'] The act or result of placing 
anything in a line with another thing or other 
things Axis of collineation. See axisi. Center 
Of collineation. See center^. 
Collinge axle. See axle. 
collinglyt (kol'ing-li), adv. [< colling, ppr. of 
coll, embrace, + -ly*.] With an embrace or 
embraces. 
And hoong about his necke 
And collinffly him kist. 
Gascoigne, Philomene (ed. Arber), p. 94. 
collingual (ko-ling'gwal), a. [< L. com-, to- 
gether, + lingua = E. tongue : see lingual.] 
Speaking the same language. Westminster Rev. 
COllinic (ko-lin'ik), a. [< collin + -4c.] Of the 
nature of or derived from gelatin. Collinic acid, 
CeH4O 2 , an acid of the aromatic series, a product of the 
oxidation of various albuminoid bodies. 
Collinsia (ko-lin'si-a), n. [From Zaccheus Col- 
lins, an early botanist of Philadelphia (1764- 
1831). The surname Collins is a patronymic 
genitive of ME. Colin, < OF. Colin, dim. of Colas, 
a familiar short form of Nicolas: see colin, and 
nickle 3 , nickel.] A genus of annual plants, of 
the natural order Scroplmlariaceas. it contains 
14 species, natives of the United States, chiefly of the Pa- 
cific coast. They have handsome, somewhat bilabiate, 
flowers. Several species are in cultivation. 
Collinsonia (kol-iu-so'ni-a), re. [From Peter 
Collinson of London (1694-1768), through whom 
Linnseus received the original species from John 
Bartram. The surname Collinson, ME. Colin- 
son, is equiv. to Collins: see Collinsia.] A ge- 
nus of North American labiate plants of the 
Atlantic States. There are 4 species, odorous peren- 
nials, with racemes of yellow or whitish flowers, and known 
as horse-weed, citronella, etc. They are used as a remedy 
in dropsy, rheumatism, fevers, and other complaints. C. 
Canadensis is considered tonic, astringent, diaphoretic, 
and diuretic. 
colliquable (ko-lik'wa-bl), a. [< colliquate, 
after liquable ; = Sp. cblicuable.] Capable of 
being liquefied or melted ; liable to melt, grow 
soft, or become fluid. 
colliquamentt (ko-lik'wa-ment), n. [< colli- 
quate, after LL. liquamentum, a melting, con- 
coction.] 1. The melted state of anything; 
that which has been melted. 2. The first rudi- 
ments of an embryo. 
colliquant (kol'i-kwant), a. [= Sp. colicuante, 
< ML. *colliquan(l-)s, ppr. of 'colliquare: see 
colliquate.] Having the power of dissolving or 
melting; wasting. 
colliquate (kol'i-kwat), v. t. or i. ; pret. and pp. 
colliquated, ppr. colliquating. [< ML. *colli- 
quatus, pp. of *colliquare (> It. colliquare = Sp. 
colicuar), "conliquare, < L. com-, together, + li- 
quare, cause to melt: see liquate.] To melt; 
dissolve ; change from solid to fluid ; fuse ; 
make or become liquid. 
The ore ... is colliquated by the violence of the fire. 
Boyle, Works, I. 481. 
Ice ... will dissolve with flre ; it will colliquate in 
water. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 1. 
colliquation (kol-i-kwa'shon), n. [< colliquate, 
after liquation; = F. colliquation = Sp. colicua- 
cion = Pg. colliquacSo = It. colliquazione.] 1. 
The act of melting; fusion ; a melting or fus- 
ing together. 
Glass may be made by the bare colliquation of the salt 
and earth remaining in the ashes of a burnt plant. Boyle. 
2. In old med., a wasting away of solid parts, 
accompanied by an excessive excretion of 
fluids. 
cqlliquative (ko-lik'wa-tiv), a. [< colliquate + 
-ive ; = F. colliquatif == Sp. colicuativo = Pg. It. 
colliquativo.] 1. Melting; dissolving; fusing. 
2. In med., profuse or excessive in flow, so 
as to cause exhaustion; wasting: as, etcolliqua- 
tive sweat (a profuse clammy sweat) ; colliqua- 
tive diarrhea. Dunglison. 
colliquativeness (ko-lik'wa-tiv-nes), n. [< col- 
liquative + -ness.] 1. The state or quality of 
melting or dissolving. 2. In med., the prop- 
erty of wasting or exhausting. 
colhquefaction (ko-lik-we-fak'shon), n. [= 
Sp. colicuefaccion, < L. cblliquefactus, pp. of 
*colliquefacere, *conliquefaeere, < com-, together, 
+ liquefacere, make liquid : see liquefy. ] A 
melting or fusing together; the reduction of 
different bodies to one mass by fusion. 
The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. 
Bacon, Phys. and Med. Remains. 
