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ting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification.

more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize. In what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure. Milton. The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastinat…

ratus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling.

A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right- angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; - - called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a sol…

A soft solid made by incorporating a medicinal substance or substances with sugar, sirup, or honey.

To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty. That treaty so prejudicial ought to have been remitted rather than confimed. Swift.

blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.

To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide. Shak.

To change from a fluid to a solid state by cold; to freeze.

The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.

o that no mordant is required. Most of them are azo compounds derived from benzidine or tolidine. Called also benzidine dyes.

d acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2.

ane which covers the external surface of the ball of the eye and the inner surface of the lids; the conjunctival membrance.

ed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids.

A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc.

ether, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We are as water, weak, and of no consistence. Jer. Taylor. The same form, substance, and consistency. T. Burned.…

Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey.

A consolidated annuity (see Consols); -- chiefly in combination or attributively.

Firm; solid; fixed; immovable; -- opposed to fluid. [Obs.] If . . . you mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body. Boyle.

Area or quantity of space or matter contained within certain limits; as, solid contents; superficial contents. The geometrical content, figure, and situation of all the lands of a kingdom. Graunt. Table of contents, or Contents, a table or list of topics in a book, showing their order and the place where they may be fo…