n.
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A melting. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. eliquatio, fr. eliquare to clarify, strain; e + liquare to make liquid, melt. ] (Metallurgy) The process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Pref. il- in + L. liquare to melt. ] The melting or dissolving of one thing into another. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. liquatio: cf. F. liquation. ]
n. [ L. obliquatio, fr. obliquare to turn obliquely. See Oblique. ]