Col local i a (kolokalia)

[NL. (G. R. Gray, 1840), Col local i a esculent a. lid a. They build the so-called edible birds' nests, much prized among the Chinese, which consist largely of in spi ated saliva secreted by the large salivary glands characteristic of the genus. There are numerous species, of Asia, Africa, and Polynesia, the best-known of which is C. esculent a. Some of them are known as salanganes. collocate (kol'ō-kāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. collo cated, ppr. collocating. cated, collocating. [L. collocatus, pp. of collocare (> Sp. colocar = Pg. Pg. collocar = It. collocare), con loc are, con loc are, together, 1105 col loc azione, The disposition and collocation of that knowledge which we preserve in writing. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 231. If elegance consists in the choice and collocation of words, you have a most indubitable title to it. Sir W. Jones, To R. Orme. 2. The state of being placed or ordered along with something else; the manner in which a thing is placed with regard to something else; disposition; arrangement; connection: as, in this collocation the sense of the word is clear. 3. In civil law, the allocation among creditors of the proceeds of a judicial sale, in satisfaction of their claims; also, the schedule prepared by the court showing the amount due to each. collock (kol'ok), n. [E. dial., earlier also col leck, collecke, quy.] colloquy; dialogue. [Rare.] collocutor (ko-lok'u-tor), n. [= Sp. colocutor = It. collocutore, On my speaking of it, in conversation with a very learned scholar, in much the same terms that I have employed in the text, my collocutor very positively queried its ever having got into print. F. Hall , Mod. Eng., p. 190.