Obs. rare. [f. L. colliquā-re (see COLLIQUATE) + -MENT: cf. L. liquāmentum.]
a. ‘The substance to which anything is reduced by being melted’ (J.); something melted, or of a more or less liquid consistence. b. ‘A term used by Harvey for the earliest embryo, from its want of consistence’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
‘An extremely transparent fluid observable in an egg after two or three days’ incubation, which contains the rudiments of the chicken’ (Crabb, Technol. Dict.).
1656. H. More, Antid. Ath., II. ix. Schol. (1712), 160. That part of the Egg, which they call the Eye, and the white colliquament out of which the young one is formed.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 202. A Sinapism is seldom … adhibited … neither by way of tabel nor colliquament.
1731–90. Bailey, Colliquament, that which is melted.
1828. in Webster.
