Col*lit"i*gant (?), a. Disputing or wrangling. [Obs.] -- n. One who litigates or wrangles. [Obs.]
Col"lo*cate (?), a. [L. collocatus, p. p. of collocare. See Couch.] Set; placed. [Obs.] Bacon.
Col"lo*cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collocated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Collocating (?).] To set or place; to set; to station.
To marshal and collocate in order his battalions.
E. Hall.
Col`lo*ca"tion (?), n. [L. collocatio.] The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.
The choice and collocation of words.
Sir W. Jones.
Col`lo*cu"tion (?), n. [L. collocutio, fr. colloqui, -locutum, to converse; col- + loqui to speak. See Loquacious.] A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse. Bailey.
Col"lo*cu`tor (?), n. [L. collocutor] One of the speakers in a dialogue. Derham.
Col*lo"di*on (?), n. [Gr. &?; like glue; ko`lla glue + &?; form. Cf. Colloid.] (Chem.) A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a coating for 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.
Col*lo"di*on*ize (?), v. t. To prepare or treat with collodion. R. Hunt.
Col*lo"di*o*type (?), n. A picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype.
Col*lo"di*um (?), n. See Collodion.
Col*logue" (?), v. i. [Cf. L. colloqui and E. dialogue. Cf. Collocution.] To talk or confer secretly and confidentially; 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.
Col"loid (?), a. [Gr. ko`lla glue + -oid. Cf. Collodion.] Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.
Col"loid (?), n. 1. (Physiol. Chem.) A substance (as albumin, gum, gelatin, etc.) which is of a gelatinous rather than a crystalline nature, and which diffuses itself through animal membranes or vegetable parchment more slowly than crystalloids do; -- opposed to crystalloid.
2. (Med.) A gelatinous substance found in colloid degeneration and colloid cancer.
Styptic colloid (Med.), a preparation of astringent and antiseptic substances with some colloid material, as collodion, for ready use.
Col*loid"al (?), a. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, colloids.
Col`loi*dal"i*ty (?), n. The state or quality of being colloidal.
Col"lop (?), n. [Of uncertain origin; cf. OF. colp blow, stroke, piece, F. coup, fr. L. colophus buffet, cuff, Gr. &?;] [Written also colp.] 1. 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.