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the plants in large pots: but thefe feldom produce good 
feeds ; whereas thole which are planted in the full ground, 
and are conllantly watered, will ripen feeds very well in 
good featons. The fecond fpecies is more tender, and 
requires the proteftion of the green houle. It may be in- 
creafed in the lame manner with the other. 
COLLIOU'RE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Eait Pyrenees, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diltrift of Cerct, with a linall port, on the Mediterranean, 
defended by a cattle, on a rock, chiefly inhabited by fith- 
ermen. The Spaniards took this town from the French 
republicans in 1793, but they were driven out, and the 
town retaken, in May 1794. The national convention de¬ 
creed, that a column (Jould be eredled on the fpot in memo¬ 
rial that “ here feven thouiand Spaniards laid down their 
arms before the republicans five leagues Jouth-eait of 
Perpignan, and five ealt of Ceret. 
COL'LTQUABLE, adj. Eafily diflblved ; liable to be 
melted.—The tender confidence renders it the more colli- 
qua/'le and confumptive. Harvey, 
COLI.i'QUAMENT, /. The lubftance to which any 
thing is reduced by being melted. 
COLLIQUAMEN'TUM, /. [from colliqueo, to melt.] 
The tranfparent fluid in an egg, obfei vable after two or 
three days incubation ; it contains the firlt rudiments of 
the chick. 
COLTIQUANT, adj. That which has the power of 
melting or diflolving. 
To COL'LiQUATE, v. a. [colliqueo, Lat.] To melt; 
to diflblve ; to turn from iolid to fluid.— The fire melted 
the glafs, that made a great Ihew, after what was colli- 
quated had been removed from the fire. Boyle. —The fat 
of the kidneys is apt to be colliquated through a great heat 
from within, and an ardent coliiquative fever. Harvey. 
To COL'LIQUATE, v. n. To melt; to be diifolved.— 
Ice wiil dilfolve in fire, and colliquaie in water or warm 
oils. Brown. 
COLLiQU A'TION, f. [from colliquatio, Lat.] The aft 
of melting.— -lafs may be made by the bare colliquation 
of the fait and earth remaining in the allies of a burnt 
plant. Boyle —From them proceed rarefaction, colliqua¬ 
tion, concoction, maturation, and molt effects of nature. 
Bacon. —Such a temperament or difpofition of the animal 
fluids as proceeds from a lax compages, and wherein they 
flow off through the fecretory glands falter than they 
ought. Sjuincy. —Any kind of univerlal diminution and 
colliaua’ion of the body. Harvey. 
COLLI'QyATLVE, adj. Melting; diffolvent.—A col¬ 
liquative fever is fuch as is attended with a diarhcea, or 
fweats, from too lax a contexture of the fluids. Sjuincy ^— 
It is a confequent of a burning- colliquative fever,'where¬ 
by .he humours, fat, and flelh, of the body are melted. 
Harvey. 
COLLIQUEFAC'TION,/ \_colliquefacio,Lzt.'} The aft 
of melting together ; reduction to one mafs by fluxion in 
the fire.—After the incorporation of metals by Ample 
codiquefaction, for the better difcovering of the nature and 
contents and difients of metals, it would be tried by in¬ 
corporating of their diflfolutions. Bacon. 
COLLPSION, f. [from collfio, Lat.] The aft of link¬ 
ing two bo. res together.—The flint and the Heel you 
may move apart as long as you pleaie; but it is the 
hitting and collijjon of them that mull make them links 
fire. Bentley. 
Or, by collifion of two bodies, grind 
The air aftrite to fire. Milton. 
The Hate of being llruck together; a clalh: 
Then from the clalhes between popes and kings, 
Debate, like fparks from flint’s collifion, fprings. Denham. 
< Striking bodies, mathematically confidered, are either 
elallic, or non-elallic. They may alio be either both in 
motion, or one of them in motion, and the other at re 11. 
When non-elallic bodies itrike, they unite together as 
Vox.. IV. Mo. 233. 
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one mafs; which, after collifion, either remains at reft, 
or moves forward as one body. But when elattic bo¬ 
dies Itrike, they always feparate after the ltroke. See 
Mechanics. 
COL'LIUS (Francois), a doftor of the Ambrofian col¬ 
lege at Milan, and great penitencier of that diocefe, died 
in 1640, at a very advanced age; made himfelf famous 
by a treadle De Animabus Paganorum, publilhed in two 
volumes, quarto, at Milan, in 1622 and 1623, He here 
examines into the portion in the world to come of feveral 
illultrious pagans. He hazards bold and ingenious con¬ 
jectures on matters far beyond the reach of our intellect. 
He laves the ALgyptian midwives, the queen of Sheba, 
Nebuchadnezzar, See. He does not defpair of the lalva- 
tion of the leven fages of Greece, nor of that of Socrates; 
but damns, without mercy, Pythagoras, Arillotle, and 
feveral others, though he acknowledges that they knew 
the true God. This work, properly ipeaking, feems to 
be nothing more than a vehicle for the difpiay of the au¬ 
thor’s erudition, of which it doubtlefs contains a great 
deal. It is moreover well written, curious, and rare. He 
alio wrote Conclufiones Theologies, 1609, quarto; and 
a treatife De fanguine Chrilli, full of profound difquifi- 
tion, and citations innumerable. It appeared at Milan,. 
1617, quarto. 
COLLIWI'LI, a town of the illand of Ceylon: fifty 
miles well of Trincomaly. 
COLL'MEN, or Cullmen, a town of Germany, in 
the circle of Upper Saxony, and circle of Leiplic : fix 
miles eaft-north-ealt of Mutfchen. 
COLLOBRIE'RES, a toan of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Var, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Hieres : eighteen miles north-ealt of Toulon. 
To COL'LOCAFE, v. a. [colloco , Lat.] To place; to 
ftation,—If you defire to fuperinduce any virtue upon a 
perfon, take the creature in which that virtue is moll 
eminent: of that creature take the parts wherein that vir¬ 
tue is collocate. Bacon. 
COLLOCA' LION, f. [collocatio , Lat.] The aft of 
placing; difpofition. The llate of being placed.—In the 
collocation of the (pints in bodies, the collocation is equal 
or unequal; and the fpirits coacervate or diltufed. Bacon. 
COLLOCOC'CA, and Collococcus, f. in botany. 
See Cordia. 
COLLOCU'TION, f, [ collocutio, Lat.] Conference; 
conversation. 
To COLLO'GUE, v.n. [probably from colloquor, Lat.] 
To wheedle; to flatter; to pleafe with kind words. A 
lo-zu vjord. 
COLLON'GE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Ain, and chief place of a canton, in the diltrift of 
Gex : five leagues fouth-fouth-well of Gex. 
COLLOP, f. [it is derived by Minlhew from coal and 
op, a ralher broiled upon the coals, a carbonade.] A frnall 
ilice of meat.—Sweetbread and collops were,with lkewers 
prick’d. Dryden. —A piece of any animal.—The lion is 
upon his death-bed: not an enemy that does not apply 
fora collop of him. IS EJl range. —In burlefque language, 
a child: 
Thou art a collop of my flelh, 
And for thy fake I have lhed many a tear. Shakefpeare. 
COLLO'QUIAL, adj. Whatever relates to common- 
converfation. 
COL'LOQUY,/, [colloquium, Lat.] Conference; con¬ 
verfation ; alternate dilcourfe ; talk.—In retirement make 
frequent colloquies, or fliort difeourfings, between God anJ- 
thy own foul. Taylor. 
My earthly, by his heav’nly over-power’d. 
In that celeftidl colloquy fublime, 
As with an objeft that excels 1 the fenfe, 
Dazzled, and fpent, funk down. Milton. 
COL'LOW,/ [more properly colly, from coal.']—Collcnv 
is the word by which they denote black grime of burnt 
coals, or wood. Woodward. 
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