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ˈcolature ? Obs.
[a. F. colature or ad. late L. cōlātūra, f. cōlāre to strain.]
1. The process of straining; colation.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 57 May be separated from them by colature. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 426 Colature through a handkercher. 1791Edin. New Disp. 100 By colature through strainers of linen.
2. The product of straining; ‘strainings’.
1601Holland Pliny xxii. xxi. II. 126 The bare colature of the decoction in water..purgeth most extremely. Ibid. II. 143 The broth or collature of them [Lupines] being, etc. 1611Cotgr., Colature, a colature; the thing strained.
3. A strainer, colatory.
1548–77Vicary Anat. v. (1888) 44 The superfluities of the brayne that commeth from the coletures of the Nose. 1675Evelyn Terra (1729) 15 So as the virtue thereof may be derived to it through a Colature of natural Earth. |