Colliquation

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Colliquation \Col`li*qua"tion\, n.
     1. A melting together; the act of melting; fusion.
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              When sand and ashes are well melted together and
              suffered to cool, there is generated, by the


              colliquation, that sort of concretion we call
              "glass".                              --Boyle.
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     2. (Med.) A processive wasting or melting away of the solid
        parts of the animal system with copious excretions of
        liquids by one or more passages. [Obs.]
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