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