Eliquo, éliquas, pen. cor. eliquâre. To melt: to make liquid.Aquam eliquare. Colum. To scoure, purge, or make water cleare.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ē-lĭquo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.I.To clarify, strain (post-Aug.). A.Lit.: vinum a faecibus, Col. 12, 27; cf. id. 12, 19, 4; Sen. Q. N. 3, 26.—B.Trop.: aliquid plorabile, to recite slowly or without energy, Pers. 1, 35: canticum ore tereti semihiantibus labellis, App. Flor. 2, 15, p. 351, 11.—II. (With the notion of the simplex predominating.) A.To cause to flow clearly, to pour forth: fluviales aquas (mons), App. M. 10, p. 253.—Fig.: in unum necesse est summitas magnitudinis aliquetur, Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 4.—B.To sift, examine thoroughly: scatebras fluviorum omnes et operta metalla, Prud. Hamart. 260.